scholar
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As the somewhat predictable plot unfolds, Ms. Brown deftly sketches the main characters: a genial Oxford don, a dog-loving manuscript expert, an elegant Austrian scholar, a pompous Princeton professor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
If Mr. Sewell is less insightful on Dulles’s political activities than his philosophy, that is perhaps as much a failure of the academic discipline as the individual scholar.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 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
China's foreign ministry first addressed the case on 27 March, when it said a Chinese scholar had taken their own life "after being subjected to hostile questioning by US law enforcement personnel".
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
One scholar has boldly, and against all the evidence, claimed that Newcomen was simply an employee of Savery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing scholar
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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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