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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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Prior to his appointment to the central bank in 2012 by then-president Obama, Powell was a scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Hai Nguyen, a Vietnam War scholar at the Harvard Kennedy school, told Hirsh that he saw history literally repeating itself.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

If Mr. Sewell is less insightful on Dulles’s political activities than his philosophy, that is perhaps as much a failure of the academic discipline as the individual scholar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Bambaataa, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee, was appointed as a three-year visiting scholar at Cornell University in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The MIT scholar pretended he couldn’t hear Farooqi.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein




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