savant

Example Sentences

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Those books imagine Holmes as a 14-year-old crime-solving savant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

After all the gnashing riffs, Lauryn Hill sang a snatch of “Nothing Even Matters,” her tender 1998 duet with D’Angelo, the neo-soul savant who died in October.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

Young Jim showed an early gift for mathematics that bordered on savant territory.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Gale, must have been as much of a madman savant as Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown to compress so much plot into every frame.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

“But this side was jolted awake. It’s called acquired savant syndrome.”

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty