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
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
That now extends to about 20 countries, including Ireland and Singapore and extending to polyglot Holland and Germany.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
She belongs to the Genoa contingent, and is one of those European polyglots who speak every continental language and make a fair attempt at English.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
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Dracula
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