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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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As a legal scholar researching the evolution of modern presidential clemency, I have reviewed every individual pardon and commutation granted by U.S. presidents since 1989, spanning seven administrations, from George H.W.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Your wife, Sarah, is an Andy Warhol scholar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Dr B Amo Konyak, a scholar of Konyak society, says the changes during this period were almost like a disappearance.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Over the course of Jim Harbaugh’s two decades as a head coach, he has been America’s most famous khaki-pants evangelist, moonlit as a Supreme Court scholar, and declared steak a daily vitamin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

He was a man of many parts: a scholar, an artist, an engineer, an architect, a man of peace, and a man of war.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Today, a motivated undergraduate at almost any university can engage with Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, John Maynard Keynes and hundreds of contemporary scholars in a single afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Every scroll that was successfully opened physically contained writing previously unknown to scholars.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

For scholars who study ancient writing, the potential importance is difficult to overstate.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Feulner was known more as an advocate than a scholar, and Heritage scholars generally wrote their own material, which I sometimes compressed to op-ed length.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Gilbert’s Copernicanism guaranteed a hostile response from orthodox Catholic scholars once Copernicanism had been condemned in 1616.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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