dean
Example Sentences
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Four years earlier, he scrawled a crude joke about the dean in the men's toilet; he has failed every exam since.
From BBC
A senior associate dean at Rutgers told the American Medical Association in 2021, “It’s better, to me, to shorten the foundational science curriculum.”
Amir Pasic, dean of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, Indianapolis, said the biggest foundations have broad influence.
“It is unclear what he means by that statement,” Franita Tolson, dean of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, said.
From Salon
With more than three decades of experience, Joe is considered the dean of media reporters.
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