erudition
Example Sentences
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Spier reviews his portfolio with an erudition that comes from an investor whose clock is ticking.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
Czech-born British playwright whose works were a rare combination of erudition and commercial success.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Begun when Gibbon was 33 in 1770, and published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, Gibbon’s history combines astonishing erudition with endless entertainment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
His astonishing erudition encouraged him to tread where few playwrights before him had dared to go.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
And after a lifetime of scholarship he was so laden with erudition that his ideas came avalanching down faster than he could organize them.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing erudition
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Great Expectations
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