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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

Beijing has "mixed feelings" about the growing partnership between Pyongyang and Moscow, says Lee Seong-hyon, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Asia Center.

From BBC • 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

Jim’s mother had studied at the Union Theological Seminary under several famous theologians and became a Confucian scholar, ending up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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