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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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“People are essentially buying down their coverage because they’re faced with these big premium increases,” said Sara Collins, a senior scholar at the Commonwealth Fund.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

“His performance is the first I have seen to realize completely what the scholar Harold Bloom means when he calls this play ‘a tragedy of the imagination.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

It has now become "an effort to consolidate and maintain authority", says Chong Ja Ian, a non-resident scholar with Carnegie China.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

As a scholar of the American presidency and deliberative democracy, I pay close attention to how the nation’s chief executive exercises power and communicates with the public.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Yet other scholars, activists and intellectuals have their takes, too, on the Harlem Renaissance’s many political movements and bids for Black self-determination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

When it comes to Moudawana reform, she would have to face the country's religious scholars, who are mostly men.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence is helping non-specialists unlock the secrets of historical sources, a trend described as a "turning point" in a field previously the preserve of scholars and dedicated hobbyists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

And there are a number of other constitutional concerns scholars have raised about the structure of H.B.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Indeed, it used to be thought that Brunelleschi had produced his demonstration images around 1425 simply because scholars wanted to envisage these images as immediately provoking new art and new theories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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