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polymath

noun as in boy wonder

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In short, I could become a polymath based on a theory that anyone can learn.

Each, in his own way, was a polymath, a rebel, and a master of science communication.

Something of a polymath, Rudnick is, according to his bio, “rumored to be quite close” to film critic Libby Gelman-Waxner, whose reviews have appeared in Premiere magazine and Entertainment Weekly.

Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank.

Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit priest and polymath, a man of unusual talents.

Jonathan Alter on the remarkable 92 years of a true polymath who built one of America's great companies.

Sure, their plump pariah son is now a svelte, BMOC, class president and (on paper) world-class polymath.

And she completely unflappable, transitioning between discussions of sex toys and Stalinism with the ease of a true polymath.

The polymath Aristoxenus is credited with a book on the writers of tragedy.

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

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