modern scholar
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandscholar
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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scholar
noun[C]
uk/ˈskɒl.ər/us/ˈskɑː.lɚ/
a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at ...
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(Definition ofmodernandscholarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmodern scholar
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His style has been described by onemodernscholaras graceful and passionate.
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Onemodernscholarconsiders the story a puerile fantasy about class assimilation.
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The conclusions appreciably raise the figures hitherto suggested by most modern scholars.
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Thus, with the rediscovery of a forgotten person and experience, modern scholars infuse the home with feelings of nostalgia.
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Some aspects of compositional practice of medieval composers have been gleaned by modern scholars from medieval manuals and treatises.
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Modern scholars often associate his name not only with monastic reform but also with musical manuscripts and their notation.
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Modern scholars are deeply habituated to the idea that meanings are built into texts by authors.
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Neither the texts nor modern scholars have stated the identities of the victims of this blinding.
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The ablative absolute is an ancient form of grammatical error much admired by modern scholars.
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Modern scholars have too often understood mastery and pleasure as autonomous and conceptually opposed domains.
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Sixteenth-century sources and modern scholars provide a bewildering array of suggestions.
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Modern scholars seem to share the same fascination, even as this applies to the musical history of the order.
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The latter is known to modern scholars chiefly for his theories of mensural simplification.
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Indeed, on the evidence presented here, it is hard to see why such feisty independent females have not been studied a good deal more by modern scholars, particularly feminist ones.
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One might imagine that more topical allusion and allegory would be found in original librettos, but modern scholars have discerned at least as much politics in the adaptations.
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That is, there is a structure (even if it is one that seems disappointing to modern scholars of linguistics) and that structure seems highly adaptable to the computer.
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The fact that the peoples they studied preserved written records, some of which became souvenirs for trophy-hungry conquistadores and their sponsors, provided a great boon to modern scholars.
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One says"bona fide", "prima facie", " quia timet"and things like that, when other and more modern scholars would use a slightly different pronunciation.
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