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savant

[sa-vahnt, sav-uhnt, sa-vahn] / sæˈvɑnt, ˈsæv ənt, saˈvɑ̃ /


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Raman is either a political savant or someone with really good timing, or maybe a little of both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

During an interview with the Zach Sang show in 2024, she spoke about a song called Fantasize, written with Swedish pop savant Max Martin, which went viral after being posted online.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

OpenAI, wanting to control its own destiny, teamed up with Apple’s former design savant Jony Ive to make its own AI device.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

An Alabama-born engineer seen as a supply-chain savant, Tim Cook took on the daunting challenge of succeeding Apple's iconic boss Steve Jobs 15 years ago.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

After I was diagnosed as a savant, school got really hard for me.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

Jon Ralston, one of Nevada’s leading political savants, agreed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Winners will be those that control the richest data streams, that build and deploy AI savants, and that embrace the new reality rather than clinging to outdated assumptions about scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

“Oh, Mary!” is the kind of instant sensation that’s all too rare these days, one so undeniable it immediately breaks through the crowd of theater savants to a wider audience of curious patrons.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

For the sibling pop savants, work and family have long been intertwined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

Almost the only American scientist of his day, he displayed remarkably deep as well as remarkably varied abilities in science and deserved the honours enthusiastically given him by the savants of Europe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various


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