Examples of scholar in a Sentence
ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023
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Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said people don’t need to test with the same rigor as at the height of the pandemic.
—Katie Mogg, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
Other scholars of nostalgia have noted that until the nineteenth century it was regarded as more a geographic longing than a temporal one, homesickness for a place rather than for an era.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Mark Kelly Hillsdale, Mich. Paul Rahe is one of the world’s top scholars of ancient military history.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
The Israeli scholar and military strategist Eitan Shamir, one of the authors of that phrase, has now declared this tactic insufficient.
—Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
Today, scholars are also examining how cabinets of curiosities—specifically, the ways they were compiled and displayed—are tied to colonialist worldviews.
—Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
Among Americans killed or missing in Israel: A scholar, a nurse, tourists
Goldberg and her family moved to Israel about 15 years ago to live in a place where the majority of people are Jewish.
—Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
As scholars of comparative politics would agree, different religions largely produce different cultures which beget different values, with those different values producing sometimes vastly different political outcomes and institutions.
—Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 13 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Middle English scoler, from Old English scolere & Anglo-French escoler, from Medieval Latin scholaris, from Late Latin, of a school, from Latin schola school
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Scholar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scholar. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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