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
“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
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
"Just as humans have to solve problems to survive, the same goes for other organisms," says Zheng, now a postdoc at the Allen Institute.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
MIT postdoc Lindsay Volk is the lead author of the study, which appears in Nature Communications.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
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