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Ph.D., PhDnoun
a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study
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PhD
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Doctor of Philosophy, doctorate in Philosophy, Philosophiae DoctorPHD
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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| #2034 | doctor | |
| #5516 | phd | |
| #10754 | doctoral | |
| #17590 | doctorate | |
| #152302 | doctorat |
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One of the things that brought me into starting my PhD program was finally coming to the realization that we were never really going to be able to tackle white supremacy in the way that we need to without reparations.
I do have American candidates but when I look at post docs and PhD students, so many are foreign students, i am in a very specialized field where we look at scientists, researchers and engineers in cutting edge areas. The first thing I'll ask is what is your status. It's an unnecessary distraction.
Fraudulent accounts, charging for things you didn't provide -- these are all actions that it doesn't take a PhD to understand, the average consumer can easily relate. And they realize if they did this they would be in jail or bankruptcy.
I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from.
It was like I came out of a coma and realized this was not normal and this is not how you do business, i know other people who've heard the story say 'How did a guy with a PhD fall victim?' I was the perfect victim. I've never been audited, never paid a traffic ticket. I don't know how to pay fines. How do I know they aren't stern and serious about everything?
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