polyhistoric

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Adjective
  • From the scholarly and enlightened to the tough and intimidating, people of all walks of life and cultural backgrounds love a good, thick face of hair.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Likewise, scholarly exchanges are picking up.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Soderbergh’s sly film asks what indeed constitutes great art and whether the answer lies in the eye of the beholder or in the erudite but not always reliable opinions from art criticism, art followers and the sometimes shallow artworld overall?
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The dazzlingly witty and erudite script, by Robert Kaplow, is nominated for Best Original Screenplay; Hawke, who is rightly nominated for Best Actor, delivers one of his richest and most surprising performances.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • While tech-literate consumers might navigate the pitfalls successfully, more vulnerable groups—such as the elderly or those less comfortable with technology—are left wide open to errors and exploitation.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The turbulence of the past year brings to mind the sourcing strain of the 2020 pandemic—and the ways companies became more legally literate almost overnight as a matter of survival.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • What made the incident even more striking was that most of Audubon Zoo’s sleepy lizards were bred in captivity, implying the reaction was an innate response instead of learned behavior.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This kind of trading is seen as a form of learned behavior, where dogs associate a specific action with a reward.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Oil prices have an impact on voting behavior, according to decades of academic research.
    Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The deeper issue is not academic integrity but the definition of intelligence.
    Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The home is located on a quarter-acre of native and cultivated gardens and houses an art studio and yurt.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And the archive, Golia said, reflects Didion’s cultivated awareness of her self-presentation.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • The durable cultured marble top holds two ceramic undermount sinks.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In short, for the first time Tavira will be in the sights of the cultured, high-end traveler who at last has somewhere to lay their (well coiffured) head.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Meghna Rao, Substack Rao’s chatty, approachable style makes her regular bookish Substacks a treat for the inbox.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There are authors and booths everywhere, and plenty of totes and bookish merch to get your hands on.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Polyhistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistoric. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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