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Adjective
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The following reading list offers an initial primer on some of the major scholarly trends in the vibrant history of natural history.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
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Until now, the consensus scholarly view has held that collards came to the Americas early in the 16th century with Spanish, Portuguese or English Europeans, who introduced collards as a garden plant that was then taken up by enslaved Africans.—
Abderrahim Ouarghidi,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Buenos Aires Reader, a comprehensive anthology enriched by its editors’ erudite commentaries, captures the Argentine capital’s evolution through contributions in art, food, music, soccer, and much else.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Obsessed, Johanne puts her experiences down on paper and entrusts the results to her grandmother, Karin (Anne Marit Jacobsen), an erudite poet living among packed bookshelves.—
Nicolas Rapold,
Deadline,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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However, in most states, Medicaid plays a pivotal role in covering the costs of essential vaccinations, particularly for children who need or are potentially required to have these for enrollment in academic and professional institutions.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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What will happen to cooperative agreements between IRS and academic researchers?—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Today, few Americans—even few historians—could describe the ins and outs of the case, but in the forties almost any literate American could have told the tale.—
Beverly Gage,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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Reading isn’t hard-coded into our genome, like the capacity for speech is, and until recently, only a small minority of humans were literate.—
Celia Ford,
Vox,
10 Mar. 2025
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Scientists have long theorized that dogs possess an innate connection to humans that they are born with and predates any training or learned behaviors.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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The scientists believe both these factors hint that this form of conflict resolution is a learned one, which is then adopted by younger apes.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Mar. 2025
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.—
Scott Brown,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2022
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Bryce Young is bookish, too.—
Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com,
al,
9 Dec. 2022
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“Polyhistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyhistoric. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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