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

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

Moore, a 43-year-old combat veteran, Rhodes scholar, author and former CEO of an anti-poverty nonprofit, has run with a “leave no one behind” slogan.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2022

When I was graduated from Haverford in 1910, a benevolent posse of college presidents in Maryland sent me to New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar.

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