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savant

noun as in scholar

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JD Vance is a brilliant savant, according to some, while other headlines call him an idiot and leave out the “savant.”

From Salon

What makes Treinen so difficult to hit is the movement he gets on his two primary pitches, an 84-mph sweeper that, according to Baseball Savant, drops an average of 40.7 inches with a 15.2-inch glove-side break, and a 94.6-mph sinker that drops an average of 27.2 inches with a 16.5-inch arm-side break.

Bell, 82, an acting savant who broke into cinema’s foreground in his sixties, explains that the pages are occupied by a series of questions about the character.

Coplan also got some big co-signs recently: The Wall Street Journal embedded Polymarket’s presidential-forecast chart on its website, and polling savant and media giant Nate Silver has purchased some equity and formally joined the platform in an advisory role.

From Slate

There is nothing fast about Honeywell’s screwball, which averages 80.8 mph and, according to Baseball Savant, features an average drop of 44.4 inches and an average left-to-right break of 8.1 inches.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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