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scholar

[skol-er] / ˈskɒl ər /


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As scholar Sheila Jasanoff asserts, sound democratic governance requires epistemic humility—an explicit acknowledgment of the limits of scientific certainty in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

That may be one reason people are airing their frustrations on social media, according to Sara Collins, a senior scholar at the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation focused on healthcare policy.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

In the Bay Area, he became a visiting scholar at Stanford University and co-founded CrowdPac, a nonpartisan political fundraising platform.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

“This is the reality: Whomever is a Christian—visibly a Christian—is becoming a target,” said Yisca Harani, an Israeli scholar who monitors anti-Christian hatred.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

“And when a brilliant scholar like me doesn’t understand it you know it’s got to be complex.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

And that was essentially a bat signal for scholars and historians to try to come up with those reasons and feed them to the court.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2026

Even the entreaties of Islamic scholars and officials of Islamic countries the world over have not bent the iron will of the emir and his enforcers, especially on the most sensitive issue of education.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

But law scholars are split on the issue that opens the door to a murky legal maze pitting the reach of a presidential pardon against the scope of the Fifth Amendment.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

The project also demonstrates the value of collaboration among institutions, established researchers, students and postdoctoral scholars.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

Much ink has been spilled by several generations of scholars in an effort to determine who wrote the bulk of the words that eventually found their way into print and then into the history books.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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