postdoc
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postdoc
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Example Sentences
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After Princeton, the keen swimmer took a postdoc at Stanford focused on protein analysis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Former MIT postdoc Haorong Chen is also an author of the paper.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Cofnas moved to Ghent University to undertake a postdoc at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Lucy Qin, a postdoc at Georgetown University who researches privacy, pushed back against this framing: “Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern,” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
"In the naïve quark model, there are three quarks inside a proton, but nothing else," said Tommy Tsang, formerly a postdoc at Kent State University, now at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
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