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adjunct

[aj-uhngkt] / ˈædʒ ʌŋkt /


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M.P.H., director of the University of Victoria's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and an adjunct professor at Boston University.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Many schools relied on adjunct professors during the boom to manage the influx of computer-science students, but those schools that added tenure-track faculty could be in a tight spot.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Can’t express enough how amazing of a learning experience this is,” Hesam Motlagh, a startup founder and adjunct professor at Stanford University, wrote on LinkedIn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

At home in Berkeley, he spent a weekend scouting locations for a heavy-water reactor, convinced that he was on the verge of securing the project as an adjunct to the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

He said hiring adjuncts with industry experience could enhance student success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

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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