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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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Mr. Munoz-Mosquera is a distinguished scholar at Boston College.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

The experiments were led by Eliza Cornell, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Lončar lab who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University, and Zhujing Xu, a former postdoctoral scholar in Lončar's group.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

USC media scholar Henry Jenkins, co-author of the “Frames of Fandom” book series, said devotees arriving in search of a “Star Wars” museum must be made to feel welcome.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

As memory scholar Paul Connerton has argued, some forms of forgetting are not failures but necessary parts of social life.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

He was good at chess, and he was a natural scholar and athlete.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The scholars we want to honor include the researcher who finds that systemic racism is the primary driver of a given disparity and is dismissed by colleagues who don’t want to hear it.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

There’s an assumption that the second half is Shakespeare’s, but scholars continue to quarrel over attribution.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

However, experts have questioned the artwork's provenance, with some scholars attributing it to Giacomo Ceruti - another Italian artist from the same period.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

“Because the modern world is very picky and the scholars have different opinions, I simply stayed with my own observations.”

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman




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