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Fadiah wrote on X that being denied entry was "tantamount to a deliberate attack on my scholarly work".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
The manuscript has received little scholarly attention, which Dr. Ilko believes is because its miracles were considered too rural in focus.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026
Since the late 1970s, a number of biographies of Mansfield have sought to dismantle the sanitized version of her life promoted by Murry, and a scholarly industry devoted to restoring her unadulterated voice has flourished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has been rightly known until now for her immense scholarly work, establishing terms like “intersectionality” and “critical race theory” that now have grown into entire fields of study.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
They laid the carved gemstone on the table in front of them and started to inspect it closely, muttering little scholarly notes to each other and passing the magnifying lenses back and forth.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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