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PhD



NOUN
doctor's degree
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"Discoveries like this are only possible because of investment into long-term multi-decadal research programs and international collaboration," Griffith University Phd Candidate and co-author Stephanie Stack said.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Her mother worked as an engineer in Iraq but her qualifications are not recognised in Scotland so she is not working and her father is a scientist who is completing a Phd.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

They have intimate knowledge of their homelands, even if that isn’t acknowledged with a Phd attached to their names.

From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2022

Still, she's also a Phd economist schooled in the downside of letting inflation spiral and unlikely to let it happen on her watch.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2021

But the previous two years, local star Stryker Phd was the winner.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2017




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