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savants

Meaning

of Savant

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being. Christopher Hitchens

The grateful savants had accepted, and they were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth-hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yawning students the anemic and wordy bookishness which they called learning. Sinclair Lewis

There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation. Daniel Tammet

I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants. Barry Diller

But these savants, although they put each other to the test by proposing to each other many questions difficult to solve, have hidden their methods. Source: Internet

Journal des savants, 1964, p. 300. It was not until the 15th century that Toulouse started to prosper. Source: Internet

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