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
A Rhodes scholar and a veteran, Buttigieg became the mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2024
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
Mr. Jealous, a Rhodes scholar who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maryland in 2018, said his qualifications for the job go well beyond being a civil-rights leader and that he has always been an environmentalist.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
He dreamed of being a Rhodes scholar years before it came off that Rhodes scholarship of his.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly
