polyglot
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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
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
In other words, a significant number of multiracial Americans will “airbrush” their polyglot lineage and instead focus on their European provenance.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026
That now extends to about 20 countries, including Ireland and Singapore and extending to polyglot Holland and Germany.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
Along the way, someone substituted the Latin ending pi for the Greek podes and came up with the polyglot octopi.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
In the brains of these polyglots -- people who speak five or more languages -- the same language regions light up when they listen to any of the languages that they speak.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
They scanned the brains of 25 polyglots, 16 of whom were hyperpolyglots, including one who spoke more than 50 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
Dictionaries of several languages, called polyglots, are of different kinds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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