Rhodes scholar
- a word derived from Rhodes scholarship.
Example Sentences
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Instead of going to a hedge fund as a quant trader, she went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The auditor studied political science and economics at the University of Mississippi and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
One of them was Derek Shearer, a native Californian whom Clinton met years later as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
He is entrusting the details of this to Chowdhury, a Rhodes scholar and physician-turned-entrepreneur, who came to psychedelics through his own mental health struggles and credits them with saving his life.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023
The oldest son gained his A. B. in 1910 at the age of eighteen; in 1911 was appointed Rhodes scholar for Kansas; and is now a student at Oxford.
From Kansas Women in Literature by Barker, Nettie Garmer
