savant
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During an interview with the Zach Sang show in 2024, she spoke about a song called Fantasize, written with Swedish pop savant Max Martin, which went viral after being posted online.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
An Alabama-born engineer seen as a supply-chain savant, Tim Cook took on the daunting challenge of succeeding Apple's iconic boss Steve Jobs 15 years ago.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Those books imagine Holmes as a 14-year-old crime-solving savant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Young Jim showed an early gift for mathematics that bordered on savant territory.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
Evans, who has not met Sacks, laughs at the suggestion that he might be either autistic or a savant, but he is powerless to explain quite where his talent comes from.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Over the course of nearly two decades as a playcaller and head coach, Kyle Shanahan has established himself as one of the NFL’s offensive savants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
“Oh, Mary!” is the kind of instant sensation that’s all too rare these days, one so undeniable it immediately breaks through the crowd of theater savants to a wider audience of curious patrons.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
For the sibling pop savants, work and family have long been intertwined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
Basketball savants want to ensure the greatness of those HBCUs is not overlooked when debating the best teams ever.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
He was decidedly provoked by the first scepticism which greeted his announcement, even more bored by the hullabaloo which the savants made over him, when investigation proved the truth of his claim.
From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
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