scholar
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It’s an unusually persuasive portrait of a scholar, thanks to Ms. Sellier’s multilingual facility for abstruse speech and the way the movie shows her spending the bulk of her time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The story of a scholar sucked into a historical-conspiratorial rabbit hole, the movie itself is made with a similarly fanatical attention, to both its style and its subject.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
As Tara Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Slate, “We’re in a bad spot right now.”
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
After a meteoric rise to the top ranks of British academia, scholar Jason Arday was found dead at his London home on Aug. 14, 2026.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
I wonder if he would have suggested stopping there right now if I’d won top scholar.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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The findings make the early political history of the Assyrian Empire more complicated than scholars once believed, but also far more revealing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
In Europe, groups of scholars have banded together to investigate allegations of plagiarism.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Carcopino’s text was indeed a popular standard, and even if scholars of ancient slavery have long since abandoned this exculpatory view, any living historian of ancient Rome can confirm that the misjudgment lingers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Even the entreaties of Islamic scholars and officials of Islamic countries the world over have not bent the iron will of the emir and his enforcers, especially on the most sensitive issue of education.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the stories he told have been confirmed by other scholars and researchers and used by many historians as a source on Jefferson’s life ever since.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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