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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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To take his journey, Mr. Mian pretended to be not a journalist but a scholar writing a history of the Volga.

From The Wall Street Journal

"When we gave sugar to the mice in hypoxia, it disappeared from their bloodstream almost instantly," says Yolanda Martí-Mateos, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in Jain's lab and first author of the new study.

From Science Daily

One of the senior scholars sitting on that floor—now someone I think of as my academic big brother—went on to become a mentor and collaborator.

From The Wall Street Journal

A formidable scholar with a genial talent for storytelling, he amplifies his archival research with personal investigation of the places and surviving objects from his subject’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the same time, Mr. Curran expands on many facets of the genre that previous scholars have only mentioned in passing.

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