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• n  someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

• Over four years, he morphed from a mediocre rapper with a thuggish point of view into a savant who merges sex, drugs and politics with a sneaky intellect, a freakish knowledge of .
• He knows almost instantly how you really feel about something, and in Hollywood, the capital city of smoke and mirrors, that instinctive, savant-like skill gives him an alchemist's .
• This week, Deepak Chopra, medical expert, ayurvedic entrepreneur and New Age savant picks up another title: New Testament author.

• initiate
• learned person
• pundit

News & Articles

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• Find Your New Favorite Restaurant With Taste Savant
  Taste Savant, which launches in Chicago today, helps users navigate the huge amount of food information and pick the perfect restaurant. [ more › ]
  June 11, 2013 - Chicagoist
• Mid-Year Financial Check-In
  Donnie talks to Daryl Dagit from Savant Capital Management.
  June 11, 2013 - WMBD - FOX 43 Peoria
• Lightsaber Knitting Needles: An Elegant Tool For a More Civilized Scarf
  Knitting in the dark is all but impossible unless you're a craft savant. But with this fun tutorial over on on Instructables , you don't have to let the sun going down stop you from finishing that scarf, those mittens, or that lovely sweater. Read more...        
  June 10, 2013 - Gizmodo

Quotes

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• Steve Carell in Reuters Canada
  His act was that of an idiot savant, minus the savant,said Carell to laughter as he paid tribute to Martin. "He's a national treasure in the loosest sense of the term."
• Tila Tequila in Myrtle Beach Sun News
  In a recent blog entry, Tequila explained to readers that "numbers and letters jump around on me a lot ...... everything goes backwards in my mind. I could be categorized as something called Idiot Savant."