scholarly
adjective
schol·ar·ly
ˈskä-lər-lē 
Examples of scholarly in a Sentence
His writings have been recently given scholarly attention.
She has a scholarly interest in music.
a scholarly study of words and their origins
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Narrative medicine, an increasingly popular scholarly field developed at Columbia University by the internist and literary scholar Rita Charon, aims to improve medical care by helping clinicians more fully understand their patients’ stories and perspectives.
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Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Most of the remaining Kashmiri Hindus, primarily from the scholarly Pandit community, fled after a wave of religious attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
In Medieval and Neo-Latin, datum was used in scholarly writings to refer to a piece of information or a premise.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Once people could do full-text searches across those archives, the scholarly richness within them became immediately apparent.
—Sara Ivry, JSTOR Daily, 4 June 2025
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Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Most of the remaining Kashmiri Hindus, primarily from the scholarly Pandit community, fled after a wave of religious attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
In Medieval and Neo-Latin, datum was used in scholarly writings to refer to a piece of information or a premise.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Once people could do full-text searches across those archives, the scholarly richness within them became immediately apparent.
—Sara Ivry, JSTOR Daily, 4 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for scholarly
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“Scholarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scholarly. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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