learned person
Example Sentences
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“In those times you were just a learned person and you would learn about all sorts of things.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2021
Somebody said it well, open your eyes people, leave the ignorance behind, act educated even if you aren't formally a learned person.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017
As a parent, I know that four years of college bring nothing more than a learned person in terms of books, tests, notes.
From Time Magazine Archive
This change was made on the suggestion of a very learned person, to the partiality of whose friendship I owe much; to the severity of whose judgment I owe more.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
His companions smiled approvingly; not that they understood a word of English, but they evidently regarded the fowl-like creature as a learned person who would give me a dressing down in my own language.
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Becke, Louis
