scholarly
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Today’s LLMs aren’t much help in serious scholarly inquiry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
They policed their own house, enforcing norms of truth-seeking, maintaining scholarly integrity and rigor, and ensuring that students emerged with basic knowledge, employable skills and civic competency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The long-suffering younger Forster described his father, in an understatement, as having “a tendency toward self-love, pride, and a certain scholarly vanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
As a précis to a larger, more scholarly work, it lacks the depth and historical context that many enthusiasts of classical drama may be hungry for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
No one now reads his scholarly disquisitions on the Tower of Babel, or on the Scribes and the Pharisees.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing scholarly
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