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doctorate

[dok-ter-it] / ˈdɒk tər ɪt /
NOUN
doctor's degree
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The musical icon received an honorary doctorate from the university in 2009.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

They were soon joined by another Polytechnique alumnus, Thomas Wolf, a wide-ranging talent who holds a doctorate in quantum physics and also worked as an intellectual property lawyer.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Arday worked as a PE teacher before earning his doctorate at Liverpool John Moores University and going on to teach at Roehampton, Durham and Glasgow.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

While pursuing a computer-science doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in machine learning, Andrew Lai interned at Microsoft and Nvidia doing deep-learning research.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

After receiving his doctorate at Berkeley, Wilson fled to Princeton, which then was more accommodating to solitary inquiry in the old style.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

That is the entire story, and there are people with doctorates who cannot say it out loud.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

The International Mathematical Union awarded its Fields Medal on Thursday at a ceremony in Philadelphia to four people, including Yu Deng and Hong Wang, who both attended Peking University before earning doctorates in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Recipients of honorary doctorates tend not to use the Dr honorific despite technically being able to out of deference to those who have undertaken the academic work to receive a PhD.

From BBC Dec. 21, 2025

Under the Master Plan, only UCs were allowed to offer doctorates, a sign of research focus and prestige.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2024

As this was much shorter than the figure proposed by such eminent theoreticians as Niels Bohr, the results represented a gutsy challenge from two young scientists with the ink barely dry on their doctorates.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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