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Recent Examples of Renaissance man
Songwriting was merely one aspect to the Renaissance man, who was also a Golden Globe-winning actor, Golden Gloves boxer, Rhodes scholar, author, U.S. Army veteran, pilot, and onetime record-label janitor.
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Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
Though Malcolm was no longer in the Nation of Islam, its members had a dress code combatting stereotypical images of Black people.
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Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man.
—Malaika Jabali, Essence, 7 Sep. 2024
Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man.
—Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024
After all, the 72-year-old Hoosier is quite the Renaissance man, dabbling in film, musical theater, painting and more between album releases.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
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Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
Though Malcolm was no longer in the Nation of Islam, its members had a dress code combatting stereotypical images of Black people.
04
Lawyer, actor, and socialist activist Paul Robeson was a stylish Renaissance man.
—Malaika Jabali, Essence, 7 Sep. 2024
Today, he might be called a polymath or a Renaissance man.
—Harriet Quick, theweek, 17 July 2024
After all, the 72-year-old Hoosier is quite the Renaissance man, dabbling in film, musical theater, painting and more between album releases.
—Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Renaissance man
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The Grammy-winning polymath announced his Based on a True Story Summer Tour on Monday (March 17), which will hit major cities in the U.K. and Europe this summer.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
17 Mar. 2025
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Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci observed tree growth and came up with his own mathematical rule for painting trees.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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His omnivorous intellect went from one topic to another, exploring them in minute detail.—
Ilan Stavans,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Gabriel has long funneled his capacious intellect and empathy into music.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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Creative wiz Michael Lasswell is already hard at work on the set design, and of course, iconic stage talent Steve Scott is the artistic director at Dunes Summer Theatre.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
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At the time, Barnett was a rising star in the speakers’ circuit because of her son Jacob, a physics wiz with autism who made headlines for excelling at school when experts doubted his abilities.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Cordless Vacuum with the ‘Power of a Dyson’ Is Down to $80 Today — but Not for Long The towels are on sale in multiple colors, including neutrals, pastels, and bright shades, such as dark gray, aqua blue, and yellow, so one is bound to match your bathroom decor.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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And Delroy Lindo as piano and harmonica blues musician Delta Slim.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Her own work has illustrated how different brain regions activate when processing English or Chinese sentences because of their differing linguistic properties.—
Gayoung Lee,
Scientific American,
14 Apr. 2025
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Sure, Southern California has a plethora of beautiful, modern-style houses dotting the exquisite greenery that makes up a lot of Beverly Hills, but a house that just landed on the real estate market has both: beauty and brains.—
TJ Macias,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Hashing things out with his tech wizard brother-in-law Maury (a shaggy Guy Pearce), Karsh wonders if ecological protesters or religious groups or competitors are upset with his global expansion plans, which include a lava field in Iceland.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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Indeed, Wei advocates the CPA profession for not just math wizards, but anyone who aspires to lead a major corporation, citing a Fortune 500 study that found 38.5 percent of CEOs of the 500 had some kind of accounting background.—
Steel Rose, CPA,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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One is blond, hair almost white, wears wire glasses, and exudes the presence of a bohemian intellectual.—
Jeffrey Seller,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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In 1799, Davy expanded his experiments to include intellectuals, philosophers and poets, like Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in what became known as the nitrous oxide trials.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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Utopia Bedding 4-Piece Sheet Set Shoppers can choose from 28 colors, such as neutrals like white and brown, along with spring-ready hues like sage green and yellow, and sizes twin through California king.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Just outside the fence are a line of plants including maidenhair and pink muhly grasses, Texas sage and society garlic.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Renaissance man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Renaissance%20man. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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