adjunct
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She teaches flute at five universities in Iowa as an adjunct professor and performs in three orchestras.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Army veteran who served four tours in Iraq and later on a mission in Afghanistan, a small business owner, an adjunct college professor and an electrical engineer, according to his campaign website.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Outside the courtroom, he lectures as an adjunct in the law school at USC and volunteers in a mock trial program for middle and high school students.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
I’d worked as a server, an office clerk, an adjunct professor and a retail worker putting myself through school.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing adjunct
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