polyglot
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Ernst is handsome, cultured, cool under pressure, effortlessly polyglot and unshakably ethical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Al-Hashimi became a polyglot — speaking English, Farsi and Armenian — in part to curb the effects of a seizure disorder on her temporal lobe, which is crucial for language comprehension.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Cook, a polyglot who can speak six languages, has also been well served by nominative determinism: She is the founder and CEO of the Cook School Cooking School.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Historians say the deprivation contributed to the growing ethnic tensions of the polyglot state, which led to the Bosnian War in the 1990s.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
It is a strange new kind of army, a polyglot mass of vastly dissimilar men, fighting for union.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
For the study, the researchers recruited 34 polyglots, each of whom had at least some degree of proficiency in five or more languages but were not bilingual or multilingual from infancy.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
They scanned the brains of 25 polyglots, 16 of whom were hyperpolyglots, including one who spoke more than 50 different languages.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 3, 2023
Some polyglots have noted problems with the languages already available.
From BBC ● May 11, 2022
Understanding the importance of languages in a globalized world, many Kenyans speak English, Swahili and a tribal language, and polyglots are common throughout Africa.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2018
I think he got more culture, more of the best effects of good literature, out of that one language than some polyglots get out of a dozen.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
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