scholar
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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
If the distinguished Soviet literary scholar Olga Freidenberg is known at all in the West, it is for her 45-year correspondence with her beloved first cousin, the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Bambaataa, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee, was appointed as a three-year visiting scholar at Cornell University in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
“It wouldn’t be a scholar either—the baby, I mean. D’you want me to do all these sprouts?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing scholar
Unit 2: Pivotal Words and Phrases
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The Renaissance and Early Modern European History - Introductory
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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