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phd

/pee-eych-dee/US // ˈpiˌeɪtʃˈdi //

哲学博士,法学博士,博士学位,博士

Definitions

  1. 1

    plural Ph.D.s

    • : the highest degree, a doctorate, awarded by a graduate school in a field of academic study, usually to a person who has completed at least three years of graduate study and a dissertation approved by a committee of professors.
    • : a person who has been awarded this degree.

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Examples

  • He also bragged about earning a PhD, a point Smerconish did not question.

  • Even his nametag played up his dweeby nature, labeling him “Mr. Gruber, PhD.”

  • Throughout her life, she faced public ridicule, legal persecution and, eventually, redemption through a PhD in clinical sexology.

  • “It is impossible by elections to choose normal people,” argues Yoram Gat, an Israeli software engineer with a PhD in statistics.

  • The son of Taiwanese immigrants, he grew up in California and earned his PhD in neuroscience at Stanford.

  • Damn few of them got it from me, I'm happy to say, and those that did, knew more about the subject than most PhD's.

  • It was a great diversion from the late nights working on my PhD.