Renaissance man
Example Sentences
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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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