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And now, here come the academics: Four of them, trailing their curricula vitae like billowing robes, ready to act as counsel for the Founding Fathers, who remain very dead but continue to haunt us.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019

His accomplishments recall the curricula vitae of those Victorians who were at once field archeologists, colonial administrators, specialists in medieval poetry, spiritualists, and spies.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

We are attracted by a moment in time – a singular moment of flux or change or collapse – not by grand curricula vitae.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

The paper serves as the official and complete account of a given research effort, which researchers note in their curricula vitae as their chief credentials for advancement.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2017

Former pollster Seymour Morris Jr runs a political-science thought experiment by scrutinizing the curricula vitae of 15 US presidential hopefuls from 1789 to 1980.

From Nature • Jan. 17, 2017