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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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They practice, in the words of one scholar she quotes, the “pedagogy of poverty.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

What Trump chooses to say in China “might be difficult to predict,” said Jyh-Shyang Sheu, a scholar of Chinese politics and military capabilities based in Taiwan.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

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

A twelfth-century Jewish scholar, Moses Maimonides, described the Kalam—the beliefs of Islamic theologians—with horror.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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