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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of study.
  • noun Plural form of study.
  • noun An academic field of study concerning the given subject.

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Examples

  • I'd like to see the studies they reference in their banned ad when they say, “studies show …

    The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Your quote: I'd like to see the studies they reference in their banned ad when they say, “studies show …

    The Vegetarian Myth | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • To spend too much time in studies is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar, nor natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study and studies themselves give forth directions much at large except to be found in by experience.

    Education: A Canadian Priority and A Provincial Responsibility 1966

  • It was with bitter ill-will that he relinquished these comforts (which he called his studies) in order to recommence a hard ride upon a high-trotting horse.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • What is now suggested is that a programme be designed based essentially on short-term studies, that is, chemical analyses of feeding studies in laboratory and/or target species of farm animal, with in vitro or in vivo mutagenicity studies as indicators of possible long-term hazard.

    Chapter 26 1979

  • It was with bitter ill-will that he relinquished these comforts (which he called his studies) in order to recommence a hard ride upon a high-trotting horse.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • It was with bitter ill-will that he relinquished these comforts (which he called his studies) in order to recommence a hard ride upon a high-trotting horse.

    Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

  • Singhal and colleagues followed up children who were involved in two studies from the 1990s when they were newborn babies.

    Bottle-feeding babies can lead to adult obesity, says study Sarah Boseley 2010

  • One corridor that has come up in a number of city and other transit studies is Ballard to UW via 45th.

    There is No Plan for that Corridor « PubliCola 2010

  • He decided that the three of us - Anna, Paola and I - would not engage in studies which open the way to a professional career, and that we would not enroll in the University.

    Rita Levi-Montalcini: Still busy after a century Peggy 2009

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