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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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The experiments were led by Eliza Cornell, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Lončar lab who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University, and Zhujing Xu, a former postdoctoral scholar in Lončar's group.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

USC media scholar Henry Jenkins, co-author of the “Frames of Fandom” book series, said devotees arriving in search of a “Star Wars” museum must be made to feel welcome.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Xu knows this not only as a scholar, now at Stanford University after years in Hong Kong and London, but from experience.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

“It wouldn’t be a scholar either—the baby, I mean. D’you want me to do all these sprouts?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

An award for scholars willing to publish rigorous, unwelcome findings is valuable because incentives matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

There’s an assumption that the second half is Shakespeare’s, but scholars continue to quarrel over attribution.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

However, experts have questioned the artwork's provenance, with some scholars attributing it to Giacomo Ceruti - another Italian artist from the same period.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

Yet, like the medieval scholars before him, Descartes believed that nothing truly moved in a straight line, for that would leave a vacuum behind it.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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