adjunct
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Many schools relied on adjunct professors during the boom to manage the influx of computer-science students, but those schools that added tenured faculty could be in a tight spot.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The limits “cannot be clearly explained by differences in real or perceived quality in the instruction of full-time or adjunct faculty,” wrote Woodward, the department’s third-ranking official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
An adjunct professor at Pepperdine’s Caruso School of Law, he’s taught ethics, antitrust, copyright and patent law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Bring a little forgiveness to the picture, says Celeste Birkhofer, a clinical psychologist and adjunct clinical faculty member at Stanford Medical School who emphasizes grief counseling.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Whereas color is an adjunct element to graphics and sometimes sculpture, it is indispensable to virtually all forms of painting.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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"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
Hiring adjuncts with industry experience could advise students how to find entry-level work in their future career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 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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