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- noun Plural form of
dean .
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Examples
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It would seem that at first the deans were the oldest masters.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey also has said that media specialists and most peer counselors, known as deans, will be reinstated for next school year, as well.
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Superintendent of Schools Jim Yancey also has said that media specialists and most peer counselors, known as deans, will be reinstated for next school year, as well.
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And yet, as I show in my newspaper column out today, if there was still any shred of doubt that we had avoided becoming an Idiocracy, it was only fully snuffed out in the last week by David Broder and Jackson Diehl - two of the alleged "deans" of the Washington media intelligentsia.
David Sirota: How the Media's Proud Know-Nothingism Helped Create the American Idiocracy 2009
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How many "deans" does it take to administer the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine?
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How many "deans" does it take to administer the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine?
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Under UVa's new hiring procedures implemented in mid-February, any new job posting - with a few notable exceptions, such as deans, nurses and academic and research faculty - must be deemed essential and must be approved by a vice president.
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The division of the diocese into deaneries is not obligatory, but in large dioceses the bishop usually entrusts to certain priests known as deans or vicars forane the oversight of the clergy of a portion of his diocese, and generally delegates to them special jurisdictional powers (Third Plen.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Prominent law school deans had testified that the Constitution was on our side.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Prominent law school deans had testified that the Constitution was on our side.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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