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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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“You can really see the impact she had on them,” said Kellie Jones, a scholar and independent curator who organized “Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980” at the Hammer Museum in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

What caught my eye as a scholar interested in popular constitutionalism was the way freed people made direct claims on the text of the state constitution.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Folklore scholar Michael Kinsella has described this kind of online activity as a form of “online legend-tripping” where audiences become contributors, collaborators and world-builders rather than simply spectators.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

As a terrorism scholar who spent a decade running the State Department office that designates terrorist organizations, I understand their confusion.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

I am no Arabian scholar, though I can read and write and count imaginary sums.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Despite the medium’s many scholars and the mathematicians working hard to calculate box office predictions and forecast trends, film is not an exact science.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

Her face displays the trademark unibrow and faint mustache — a gender-bending look that, scholars say, reflects Kahlo’s defiant repudiation of the classic female aesthetic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

“We’ve learned over and over in human civilization that scholars can move across borders,” Yaghi told the New York Times last year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

The American Security Foundation convened an assembly of leaders and scholars at the Vatican, where we signed a Joint Statement on AI Ethics.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Indeed, it used to be thought that Brunelleschi had produced his demonstration images around 1425 simply because scholars wanted to envisage these images as immediately provoking new art and new theories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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