polyglot
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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
Having gained a reputation for punchy phrases, the polyglot politician appears unlikely to shy away from the fight.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
A K-pop act finally got a new artist nod as well, with the polyglot girl group Katseye landing alongside Addison Rae, Lola Young and Sombr.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 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
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
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
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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