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
Most of this is described in polyglot, suggesting he felt some shame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
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 is a strange new kind of army, a polyglot mass of vastly dissimilar men, fighting for union.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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
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
The stock language is probably German, for this bohemian gathering is essentially a German institution; but the Germans are polyglots, and you will hardly find yourself lost in their company, whatever your native tongue.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Henry Smith Williams
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