erudite

Example Sentences

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The erudite and engaging historian Lincoln Paine unfolds our relationship to the aquatic planet for the past 5,000 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

In “The Mighty Continent,” he condenses a grand historical narrative into a conversational and erudite survey of a civilization that “invented the modern world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

I didn’t want to make an erudite cinematic movie or a referential movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

The Pod Save America staff remain funny, erudite, and extremely online; the only qualifications necessary to be adept podcasters.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2025

“Oh, dear me, no. I like to think of myself as an aged but extremely erudite scholar.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques