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adjunct

[aj-uhngkt] / ˈædʒ ʌŋkt /


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"It's kind of a poisoned chalice for any Chinese defence minister to speak out publicly," said Jennifer Parker, adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia's Defence and Security Institute.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

The problem: “Like Crazy Eddie, for those that remember him, the fees are ‘insane,’” says institutional investor Michael Weinberg, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

She taught for six years as an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School and serves on its Women in Leadership board.

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

Over time, observation became an adjunct to experiment, both producing reliable facts in place of the unreliable, unspecific ‘experience’ which underlay so much classical and medieval discussion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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