emeritus
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Flinders University Emeritus Professor John Long, who participated in earlier research that first described Koharalepis in 1992, says modern imaging technology made it possible to study internal structures without damaging the fossil.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
Chairman Emeritus Rupert Murdoch visited Trump at the White House in February to warn how traditional TV networks could be priced out of the NFL due to competition from deep-pocketed streamers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
"This is a schism, even if they don't want to say that," Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford in England, told the BBC.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Emeritus status is selective and requires approval at most universities.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
He reached for my hand again, but this time to slip into it a heavily folded sheet of stationery on the letterhead of Peter Van Houten, Novelist Emeritus.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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