emerita
Americanadjective
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Origin of emerita
< Latin, feminine of ēmeritus emeritus
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"Right away, I knew it was something really special," says Voight, curator emerita of invertebrates at the Field Museum in Chicago and the lead author of the study describing the new species.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
“Every generation feels like all of a sudden food is becoming an enormously prominent issue like it never was before,” says the 89-year-old nutritionist and New York University professor emerita.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
As chair emerita, Harris will not have editorial control over the Headquarters content, according to the announcement, which raises its own questions about accountability and messaging discipline.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
Malinche “was well known in the Chicana community, and we loved her,” said Inés Hernández-Ávila, professor emerita of Native American Studies at UC Davis.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
No sooner had the "lady," as Byron was pleased to call her, played her part as decoy, than she was discharged as emerita.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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