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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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Bambaataa, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee, was appointed as a three-year visiting scholar at Cornell University in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

"We've never seen this before," says Deane-Peter Baker, a special forces ethics scholar.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Richard Bartholomew, a British scholar of religion who followed Clement for years, does not believe Clement was talking about Trump in his 2007 prophecies.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

That could fill several trucks, said Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and a former nuclear negotiator with Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

The man’s name was Robert Luckhurst, and he’d been a scholar of Magdalen College, an historian.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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