2
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 lack of First Amendment protections from the nation's high court has agitated some legal scholars who see the protections for free speech and petitioning the government as deeply connected to public employees' labor rights.
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Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 19 Feb. 2026
The Evanston school’s performance and theater departments had a heritage of exploring non-dramatic texts like novels and narrative poems, with scholar-artists like Robert Breen and Frank Galati turning them into theater.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Jamie Raskin, a constitutional law scholar and Democratic Maryland congressman, has been pushing the administration for more transparency about Epstein’s ties to America’s elite universities.
—Chris Quintana, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
What scholars of Black history and historians talk about all the time is that in moments in which there are periods of Black social, political, and economic progress, there is often pushback to that progress.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
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Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 19 Feb. 2026
The Evanston school’s performance and theater departments had a heritage of exploring non-dramatic texts like novels and narrative poems, with scholar-artists like Robert Breen and Frank Galati turning them into theater.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Jamie Raskin, a constitutional law scholar and Democratic Maryland congressman, has been pushing the administration for more transparency about Epstein’s ties to America’s elite universities.
—Chris Quintana, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
What scholars of Black history and historians talk about all the time is that in moments in which there are periods of Black social, political, and economic progress, there is often pushback to that progress.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Scholar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scholar. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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