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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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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

"We've never seen this before," says Deane-Peter Baker, a special forces ethics scholar.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Salon he is not hopeful the outbreaks can be contained at this point.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

As legal scholar John A. Powell once commented, only half in jest, “It’s actually better to be exploited than marginalized, in some respects, because if you’re exploited presumably you’re still needed.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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