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Example sentences for: scholar

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The book is uneven, here summarizing an important scholar's work in a paragraph or two, there devoting one entire chapter to women's English and another to black English, both rather disproportionately trivial in the general scheme of linguistic theory.
Some years ago I shouldered the rewarding (and not very exacting) task of editing some articles by Bernard Lewis, distinguished scholar of the Arab world.
Stanley Fish, the flamboyant Milton scholar, legal theorist, and academic celebrity (David Lodge based his jet-setting Professor Morris Zapp on him), has left Duke University and the English department to which he attracted a parade of stars and controversies.
Roger Flavell is a linguist, a scholar who has been interested in idioms for many years and was co-author of On Idioms , in the Exeter Linguistics Series.
Harvard remains unable to choose a senior scholar to fill a new chair in Holocaust studies, and has deferred a decision until the fall of 1998.