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The book includes 15 essays that primarily focus on women with PhDs or in doctoral programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

I'm doing my comp. exam (also called doctoral exam here) this summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter] Reference

We were all young, fresh-faced and standing at the bottom of that mountain known as doctoral studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someday Syndrome | Change my life!] Reference

Perhaps you could turn this into some kind of doctoral thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modular Procrastination] Reference

Oooh ooh ... a kind of doctoral, psychological-type looking test ... hrrrmmm.    From Wordnik.com.  [moschikat Diary Entry] Reference

There was debate in the land; doctoral dissertations were launched.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Eating William Gass?] Reference

Other women of her age and intelligence were completing doctoral degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuning Pegs] Reference

At the doctoral level, this has resulted in low-risk, derivative research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solving For Creativity] Reference

Malin, then a graduate student, ventured a guess in his doctoral dissertation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Seas] Reference

But by 1969 he was a doctoral candidate at Wisconsin and a congressional intern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backseat Driver] Reference

In 1989, nearing 40 and with five children, he joined Harvard's doctoral program.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Of Innovation] Reference

We produce over a hundred doctoral students for every full time position that opens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference

As an M.B.A. student, Charan showed such promise he was tapped for the doctoral program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate Confidant] Reference

Mr. Ladwig is a doctoral candidate in international relations at Merton College, Oxford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron's Afghan Challenge] Reference

There's a ritual for haggling, the analysis of which is worthy of doctoral dissertations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do's And Don'ts For The Great American Garage Sale] Reference

Four years ago Filo and Yang were desperately seeking diversion from boring doctoral theses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surfers, Step Right Up!] Reference

Others in the lab, like graduate student Yongjin Sung and post-doctoral fellows Jeon Woong Kang and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researchers Beaming at Light's Medical Uses] Reference

Dutch biologist Beatrice Schwarz isolated the pathogen and described it in her doctoral dissertation in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Back in his dorm room, Li, the young doctoral student, imagines what it would be like to win the Fields Medal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solving For Creativity] Reference

As a doctoral student at MIT in the late 1970s, Bernanke became focused on the causes of the Great Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Money Man] Reference

The 65-year-old former MIT economics professor supervised Ben Bernanke's doctoral thesis on the Great Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The View From Israel] Reference

He holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.    From Wordnik.com.  [U-Md. names U. of Iowa provost as president] Reference

These high-powered founders consist of a pediatrician, a heart surgeon, a doctoral student, and an undergraduate student.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Luce: OIWW Madagascar Builds Home for Orphans - with Violins] Reference

Many do not know that the new prime minister of the Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas, wrote a Holocaust-denying doctoral thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spiritual State: Inhumanity to Jews] Reference

James H. Hibbard is a former professional cyclist, and is currently a doctoral student studying philosophy at DePaul University.    From Wordnik.com.  [James H. Hibbard: The Ripple Effect of Doping in Sports] Reference

In Finland, the world's most competitive economy by many surveys, there are 10 doctoral theses on family business now in the works.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEST OF THE BEST] Reference

As my doctoral research at the Netherlands 'University of Groningen with dozens of subjects has shown, dreams are not "silent movies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

Edith Liu, a 30-year-old doctoral student from Philadelphia, showed a reporter talking points she pulled off of a pro-Hillary Web site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vote Count Carnival] Reference

Now I work full-time in Iowa, take graduate courses at night and live with my boyfriend, who is investing serious time in a doctoral program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Family Resemblances] Reference

In the 1970s, he was living on top of a glacier and mapping Iceland's reservoirs of hot groundwater as part of his doctoral thesis in chemistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hydrogen Economy] Reference

Not only did this idea of "parallel processing" become his doctoral thesis but, while still a grad student, he started a company based on it, called (what else?).    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MIND OF AN INVENTOR] Reference

A doctoral student in physics at Columbia University, a month away from defending her dissertation, has been unable to return since taking an emergency flight to China on Sept. 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Wait] Reference