adjunct
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Schiffman was the study's corresponding author and an adjunct professor in the joint department of biomedical engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Elliott Hazen, an adjunct professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, says that hasn't happened in a decade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“The fight over whether AI training is fair use is yesterday’s war,” James Rubinowitz, an adjunct professor at Cardozo School of Law, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The chance of the region and Hormuz going back to the old normal is effectively zero,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
They can also show up as an adjunct to a verb phrase or clause, as in She died young And They showed up drunk.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Unions representing graduate workers, adjuncts and non-tenure-track instructors have organized in recent years at several campuses, including New York University, Columbia and Harvard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
"Healthy dietary and lifestyle practices should remain the foundation for obesity treatment and management, with medications such as GLP-1 receptor agonists used as adjuncts."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026
Administrators rely too heavily on student reviews when deciding whether to retain adjuncts, assistant professors and even associates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
That’s what illustrations are for — as adjuncts to writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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