postdoc
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postdoc
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Example Sentences
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“I am hanging on to an academic career by my fingernails,” the 39-year-old wrote in May, as he plied his trade as a part-time postdoc at a public university in Belgium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
Drexl, two PhD research fellows and a postdoc studied 28 people in Germany who reported hearing an unexplained hum or buzz.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
MIT graduate student Constantine Tzouanas, former MIT postdoc Jessica Shay, and Massachusetts General Brigham postdoc Marc Sherman are the co-first authors of the paper.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
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