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Renaissance man

NOUN
person taking on multiple roles
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And for his next act, this renaissance man of math is doing something improbable even by his standards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

At 73, Santaolalla is a soundtrack renaissance man.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024

Blitz Bazawule, the director of a new film adaptation of Alice Walker's revered 1982 novel The Color Purple, is a true renaissance man.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2023

He pitched himself as a renaissance man, an athlete and a scholar, a warrior with a sense of patriotic duty and a poet who preferred to be alone with his thoughts.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2022

Jeff is a renaissance man, drilling down to the core issues and pushing the envelope.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker



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