scholar
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The late Gordon Wood, the preeminent scholar of the revolutionary period, explained that there was no common lineage, even at the nation’s founding.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
That triple-decker analogy comes from a scholar whose love for poetry runs deep, and who seems part poet himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
As Tara Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Slate, “We’re in a bad spot right now.”
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Former esports scholar Cameron Dray found out about Roehampton through the esports scholarship.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Since neither of us could read the papers, Sass said she would take them home so that her husband, who was a scholar, could read them.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
The public ultimately expects journalists, scholars and elected officials to behave ethically.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Even the entreaties of Islamic scholars and officials of Islamic countries the world over have not bent the iron will of the emir and his enforcers, especially on the most sensitive issue of education.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
This is possibly linked to where Native Americans and Europeans had more prolonged trade contact, scholars say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Insensitive to this change of meaning, scholars frequently translate the word experimentum in Latin texts as ‘experiment’, thus often giving a totally false impression of its meaning, which is commonly ‘experience’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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