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Even during his glittering publishing career at i-D, W, and the American, Italian and British editions of Vogue, the fashion polymath remained a stylist and consultant — staging runway shows and even directing a film — such was his London fashion-world reknown.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 The British polymath Lewis Fry Richardson was the first to try his hand at using the laws of physics to model the weather system.—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 Besides practicing writing, Estelle’s teen years started her journey to becoming a polymath.—Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025 In many ways, the life of a podcast polymath is way easier than that of a late-night host.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for polymath
Word History
Etymology
Greek polymathēs very learned, from poly- + manthanein to learn — more at mathematical
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