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  • adjective postdoctoral

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post- +‎ doctorate

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Examples

  • Team mentor Tamar Shinar, a postdoctorate fellow at NYU's Courant Institute, says that what surprised her was her team's deep engagement in a process which was so different from their more passive, routine school work.

    Angela Haines: Girl Tech Inventors and Mentors! Angela Haines 2011

  • Team mentor Tamar Shinar, a postdoctorate fellow at NYU's Courant Institute, says that what surprised her was her team's deep engagement in a process which was so different from their more passive, routine school work.

    Angela Haines: Girl Tech Inventors and Mentors! Angela Haines 2011

  • A novel of big ideas, the book's whirlwind plot is set between Berlin, Boston, Los Alamos and Auschwitz, and takes in neo-Nazis, a physics professor who returns to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian postdoctorate who designs an experiment that will determine the fate of the universe, and a Holocaust survivor who tells his tale to the willing ear of a young psychologist.

    omega minor and war protest jlundberg 2008

  • As a younger woman, Fisher got her Ph.D. in zoology from Rutgers University and did postdoctorate work there at the medical school.

    The Wrong Woman To Pass Over 2008

  • By then, I realized that I loved research, and I applied for the Ph.D. program in biochemistry at Cornell and went on for a postdoctorate with Dr. David Page, at MIT's Whitehead Insti-tute, when gene discovery was starting.

    Leading the Way 2007

  • His probable lack of postdoctorate may explain that - he returned home immediately afterwards.

    Fun with Hominin Cranial Capacity Datasets (and Excel) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Thorburn, a medical doctor who is in a postdoctorate program at Stanford, began her full-fledged international career in 2002 — around when Armstrong's hips made her abandon triathlon.

    USATODAY.com - Armstrong wins women's Olympic road cycling berth 2004

  • The latest from Dougal Campbell, one of the people whose posts appear in the WP dashboard tells of one MIT graduate student’s postdoctorate project, which includes a general survey of weblog authors.

    I’m a statistic 2005

  • The latest from Dougal Campbell, one of the people whose posts appear in the WP dashboard tells of one MIT graduate student’s postdoctorate project, which includes a general survey of weblog authors.

    I’m a statistic 2005

  • Additional work as a postdoctorate teaching fellow acted as a booster shot.

    The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990

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