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[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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Dove is the bound-foot daughter of an imperial scholar who came to the city to become one of the locked-away wives of a decades-older merchant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The social safety net scholar Angela Rachidi notes the program was “due for a decline” after elevated enrollment during the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Seong-Hyon Lee, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Asia Center, also said Beijing is shifting towards "underwriting regime durability" rather than seeking to coerce North Korea into denuclearisation.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Daisoon Kim is a scholar at the Andersen Institute for Economics & Finance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

The MIT scholar pretended he couldn’t hear Farooqi.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein




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