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doctorate

[dok-ter-it] / ˈdɒk tər ɪt /
NOUN
doctor's degree
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Johnson completed her master's degree at Penn State and is now pursuing a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

“We learned nothing from social media,” said Nataliya Kosmyna, a visiting researcher at Google with a doctorate in human-computer interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A native of Ireland, Madigan earned a mathematics degree and a doctorate in statistics from Trinity College Dublin and worked in insurance and technology consulting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Felicity Finch, who plays former Harper Adams student Ruth Archer on the BBC's The Archers programme, will receive an honorary doctorate.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

He would’ve gone to medical school, got twelve doctorate degrees and bought a large green python on a stick.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

That is the entire story, and there are people with doctorates who cannot say it out loud.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The International Mathematical Union awarded its Fields Medal on Thursday at a ceremony in Philadelphia to four people, including Yu Deng and Hong Wang, who both attended Peking University before earning doctorates in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Recipients of honorary doctorates tend not to use the Dr honorific despite technically being able to out of deference to those who have undertaken the academic work to receive a PhD.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

Under the Master Plan, only UCs were allowed to offer doctorates, a sign of research focus and prestige.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

Elbert Frank Cox and Dudley Weldon Woodard, the first two Negroes to earn doctorates in mathematics, with degrees from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, ran the department.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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