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polyglot

[pol-ee-glot] / ˈpɒl iˌglɒt /




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Among their polyglot ranks are search-and-rescue specialists, doctors, canine teams and structural engineers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 2026

His polyglot is a mixture of French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin and Greek, which is how these passages appear in the diary.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Cook, a polyglot who can speak six languages, has also been well served by nominative determinism: She is the founder and CEO of the Cook School Cooking School.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

Historians say the deprivation contributed to the growing ethnic tensions of the polyglot state, which led to the Bosnian War in the 1990s.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2025

The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Studying polyglots can help researchers learn more about the functions of the language network, and how languages learned later in life might be represented differently than a native language or languages.

From Science Daily Mar. 11, 2024

In a new brain imaging study, researchers peered inside the minds of polyglots like Smith to tease out how language-specific regions in their brains respond to hearing different languages.

From Science Magazine Feb. 3, 2023

Some polyglots have noted problems with the languages already available.

From BBC May 11, 2022

Understanding the importance of languages in a globalized world, many Kenyans speak English, Swahili and a tribal language, and polyglots are common throughout Africa.

From Seattle Times Jan. 21, 2018

For who but a child dare act so freely among these polyglots of ceremony in this little world of frills and frocks and feathers?

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani




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