scholar
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"We usually think of the brain as a closed system," said Julia Belk, a postdoctoral scholar in pathology at Stanford Medicine and first author on the new study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
That may be one reason people are airing their frustrations on social media, according to Sara Collins, a senior scholar at the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation focused on healthcare policy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the Bay Area, he became a visiting scholar at Stanford University and co-founded CrowdPac, a nonpartisan political fundraising platform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Reading the résumé she prepared after reaching New York, he sees “two Hannah Arendts” taking shape in Paris: the scholar and the woman devoted to Jewish action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was Werfel’s job to host the elfin emissary in the city, to take the scholar in as a guest in his own home.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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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
We know that over the past half-century, more than 200 people have been exonerated after having been sentenced to die, and scholars estimate that 4 percent of those sentenced to death are innocent.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
But law scholars are split on the issue that opens the door to a murky legal maze pitting the reach of a presidential pardon against the scope of the Fifth Amendment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Sharing a federal law enforcement officer’s personal information is generally not considered a crime without evidence of criminal intent, a historically high bar in court, according to constitutional scholars and defense attorneys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Usually Ampai would be in the hall at dinnertime, talking to everyone, quizzing the children on their schooling, or debating philosophy with the old scholars.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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