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scholarly

adjective as in academic

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Despite his scholarly assiduity, Metcalfe is moving down an errant path that will never square the facts with lived experience.

I wondered if I needed to be scholarly.

“There’s been a lot of rigorous scholarly studies and thinking behind all of the different conservation aspects of the site,” said Luce.

For the literary circles I travel in, I sometimes wonder if watch-wearers think it makes them look more intellectual, scholarly.

Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound.

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