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doctorate

[dok-ter-it] / ˈdɒk tər ɪt /
NOUN
doctor's degree
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Yang Zhilin, who earned his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University, came back to China to lead Moonshot AI, one of China’s top AI labs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

Amodei, who has a doctorate in biology, co-founded Anthropic in 2021 after leaving OpenAI.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Young Cheol Kim, who completed his doctorate in geosciences at Penn State this summer, explained that monitoring the volcano continuously is essential for distinguishing normal activity from changes that might signal increasing volcanic hazards.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Freud spoke to BBC Radio Suffolk on Monday, after she received an honorary doctorate for her work in film and broadcasting at the University of Suffolk on Saturday.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“I gathered that you ‘ran up against’ Chadwick while in Europe,” commiserated Ernest Pollard of Yale, who had received his doctorate under Chadwick the year before.

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

While most US undergraduate programmes are typically four years, graduate level programmes such as doctorates typically take longer to complete.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

I work for a company that employs people like me: writers with doctorates, a need for cash and very few marketable skills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Comptons guests had come to the city to receive honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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