scholar
Example Sentences
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As a legal scholar in the 1970s, Jerome A. Cohen brought American ideas about law to Deng Xiaoping’s government.
Mr. Man is knowledgeable and well-traveled, but as a historian he is more of a raconteur than a scholar.
In fact, Roger Pielke, a longtime climate scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, notes U.S. emissions have been remarkably impervious to presidential terms: relative to economic output, they have declined steadily for decades.
He would become a pre-eminent scholar of disasters and spend the rest of his long career illuminating the corrosive, collective traumas left in their wake.
Mr. Early served twice as assistant commissioner at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is an adjunct scholar to the Cato Institute.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.