polymath
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Oddie was a true polymath, a man who seemed to make a success of everything to which he turned his hand.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
And there are details on her life with her third husband, the polymath George Cooper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
Later this month, the world premiere of Kurtag's second opera "Die Stechardin" about the 18th-century love story of a German polymath and a flower girl will cap the centenary of his birth.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
It’s hardly surprising that there’s a strong market for books and articles claiming to demystify the painting’s creator, even though not much is definitively known about the Italian polymath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
His father was a wealthy banker in Birmingham; his mother was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the polymath poet and doctor, who was also Charles Darwin's grandfather.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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