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adjunct

[aj-uhngkt] / ˈædʒ ʌŋkt /


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“And the nice thing is that I’m making more money in a month than I would teaching an adjunct class.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

M.P.H., director of the University of Victoria's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and an adjunct professor at Boston University.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

An adjunct professor at Pepperdine’s Caruso School of Law, he’s taught ethics, antitrust, copyright and patent law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Dr. Shaywitz is chief medical scientist at Lore Health, a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Yes. She is now teaching in America. She shares a cramped office with another adjunct professor, but she says at least teachers are paid there.”

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Healthy dietary and lifestyle practices should remain the foundation for obesity treatment and management, with medications such as GLP-1 receptor agonists used as adjuncts."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026

Administrators rely too heavily on student reviews when deciding whether to retain adjuncts, assistant professors and even associates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

The medical school’s full-time faculty numbers more than 2,000, with an additional 2,000 to 2,500 part-timers or adjuncts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

Rather than seeing records as marketing adjuncts to concert tours, he showed that recordings could be the principal point of contact — in his case, the only point — between musicians and their fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens


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