polyglot
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Having gained a reputation for punchy phrases, the polyglot politician appears unlikely to shy away from the fight.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
It’s also important in a polyglot state like California that a poll is not conducted solely in English.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
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
Denmark's chain-smoking, flamboyant, polyglot Danish queen - who Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described as the "epitome of Denmark" - spent more than half a century on the throne.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024
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
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