How to Use PhD in a Sentence

PhD

abbreviation or noun

• Chris, who has put his PhD on hold, passes his days as a birder.
  — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
• With the rarest of exceptions, it’s been led by a seasoned economist with a PhD in the field.
  — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 13 June 2023
• Google—a groundbreaking Stanford PhD project, also with zero ads—was just three months old.
  — Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
• In the world of restaurants, however, that’s like earning a PhD or receiving an Oscar.
  — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
• Head of Engineering Yufeng Gou built Saks’ native app and holds a PhD in physics.
  — Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• To me, my 11 years there were an Oxford degree, a master’s and a PhD in the building of global beauty brands.
  — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 17 June 2025
• The parents had grown up in Canada but lived in multiple states while the mother did a PhD and secured a tenure-track teaching job.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
• Haley's father graduated from his PhD program in 1969, but didn't have many work prospects.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
• The real Lillian Gilbreth was a working woman with a PhD in psychology.
  — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2023
• Carter-Williams, who has a PhD in public health, went through her own health crisis, surviving a heart attack and two strokes due to genetic heart disease.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 19 Feb. 2025
• Unimpressed with what the market had to offer, Wong—then a PhD student at Cambridge—decided to design his own.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2024
• Individual achievement will always have its place (says the woman who wrote her PhD thesis all by herself), but learning is not just a solo sport.
  — Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The Bogong moth research was part of Dr Adden’s PhD at Lund University.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• My PhD was fully funded with tuition waivers and varying stipends per year from a combination of fellowships, scholarships, and teaching or research assistantships.
  — R29 Team, Refinery29, 22 Aug. 2025
• But undergraduates at PhD granting research universities will feel the aftershocks.
  — Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• An alum of Cambridge and Oxford and currently a PhD candidate at Yale, Kuang’s sales total more than four million copies across all of her novels combined.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
• There are likely to be fewer research opportunities for undergrads; fewer PhD students available to teach small sections or labs (that make big lectures work); and some specialized majors that get eliminated.
  — Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• At the time of the murders, Kohberger was earning a PhD in criminology at Washington State University.
  — Caroline Blair, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• As someone who aged out of foster care and navigated homelessness from 18-24 years old and raised her siblings while earning her PhD, Keating understands the toll of unresolved trauma.
  — Ginger Gentile, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The study was led by Richelle van Capelleveen, an early career PhD student from Leiden University, and was co-led by a graduate student team at the University of Galway.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Caleb teaches undergraduate, masters, MBA, and PhD students how to communicate and understand consumer behavior.
  — Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
• When Faulk joined the Rams in 1999, new offensive coordinator Mike Martz realized his RB1 had a PhD in football.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
• With a degree in biology, a PhD in chemistry, and his previous role at the Institute of Physics Publishing, Ian is taking a world tour through the different scientific disciplines.
  — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 24 May 2026
• According to Nilufa Sultana, PhD, lead author of the study, the system proved effective even under real-world conditions, including high temperatures and detergent-heavy wastewater.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
• As the drinks flow during a gathering of faculty and PhD students at their deluxe digs, Alma’s doting husband Frederick (Michael Stuhlbarg), another shrink, teasingly asks what happens if one of them gets tenure and the other doesn’t.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
• Preeti Arya, PhD is an assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s textile development and marketing department.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
• Ralf Schonherr holds a PhD in AI, is a serial entrepreneur, robotics/AI expert, and CEO/co-founder of Myriad AI.
  — Ralf Schonherr, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• In a recent text exchange with another author and education leader, Joel Hernandez (not a physics PhD but a former Marine), Joel suggested a mandatory year of CTE before college.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• This piece from Simran Jeet Singh, PhD, was written for The Well, a Big Think publication created in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation.
  — Simran Jeet Singh, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• Junghyun Bae, PhD, a nuclear engineer and a Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellow leading projects for muon tomography at ORNL, revealed they’re thrilled to have brought the system to life.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025