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Juris Doctor

American  
[joor-is dok-ter] / ˈdʒʊər ɪs ˈdɒk tər /

noun

  1. a degree awarded by a school of law to a person who has completed the graduate program of study. J.D., Jur. D.


Example Sentences

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One doesn’t need Juris Doctor behind their name to call this out.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024

He holds a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor from Fordham University.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2022

He attended Harvard Law School and received his Juris Doctor in 2002.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2021

In reality, he earned his highest degree from the School of Law at St. Mary's University in San Antonio in 1977 — a Juris Doctor.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2020

They are represented by the animated, learned, eloquent, ingenious, and entirely futile and impertinent arguments of Juris Doctor Bottinius and Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis.

From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)