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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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What Trump chooses to say in China “might be difficult to predict,” said Jyh-Shyang Sheu, a scholar of Chinese politics and military capabilities based in Taiwan.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

“We were having lunch and he was looking for a project and I mentioned to him ‘you know, there hasn’t been a good American scholar doing work on Syria for many, many years,’” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Prior to his appointment to the central bank in 2012 by then-president Obama, Powell was a scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Hai Nguyen, a Vietnam War scholar at the Harvard Kennedy school, told Hirsh that he saw history literally repeating itself.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

He was a scholar, the friend of Raleigh and of Nashe, the most brilliant and educated of the Cambridge wits.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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