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a
: a person who has done advanced study in a special field
b
: a learned person
3
: a holder of a scholarship
Examples of scholar in a Sentence
She's a renowned scholar of African-American history.
scholars have long debated whether there is ever such a thing as a truly selfless act
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The facility's revelation came less than two years after North Korea unveiled another covert uranium-enrichment plant in September 2024, in its first public disclosure of such a facility since showing one at the country’s main Yongbyon nuclear complex to visiting American scholars in 2010.
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Before King Sejong the Great and his team of scholars created the Korean alphabet (Hangul) in 1443, Koreans used Chinese characters (called hanja in Korean) to read and write, and literacy was mostly limited to the wealthy elite.
—Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Subsequent scholars would beg to differ, sometimes at the expense of more evaluative or humanistic modes of reading.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
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ABC News, 3 June 2026
Other speakers include composer and educator Scott Keever, relational coach and writer Jennifer Luciani and scholar and writer Martin Law.
—Hannah Brueske, Twin Cities, 2 June 2026
Before King Sejong the Great and his team of scholars created the Korean alphabet (Hangul) in 1443, Koreans used Chinese characters (called hanja in Korean) to read and write, and literacy was mostly limited to the wealthy elite.
—Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Subsequent scholars would beg to differ, sometimes at the expense of more evaluative or humanistic modes of reading.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
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“Scholar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scholar. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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