noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
honorary
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Elizabeth visited Ivy not long after the University of Leeds had given her an honorary doctorate , in May 1960.
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In addition to seeking goodwill and international business links, Brown will receive an honorary doctorate from Seoul University.
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In December, she was awarded an honorary doctorate .
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And the Corcoran School of Art has awarded him an honorary doctorate .
■ NOUN
degree
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The board approved doctorate degrees in communications and experimental psychology at North Dakota State University.
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He later earned a doctorate degree from the University of Michigan.
■ VERB
earn
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She then earned a doctorate in political sociology at City University of New York.
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He later earned a doctorate degree from the University of Michigan.
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He earned his doctorate at Harvard.
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He earned a doctorate at Princeton University in 1959 and started teaching that same year at Berkeley.
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Campbell earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation dealt with wage differentials between men and women.
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He earned a doctorate in law at the age of twenty-four.
get
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One is podgy loser Philippe, a cultural philosopher who for years has been failing to get his doctorate accepted.
receive
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He later received a doctorate for his philosophical publications.
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At age sixteen, he had received his doctorate in canon and civil law.
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In addition to seeking goodwill and international business links, Brown will receive an honorary doctorate from Seoul University.
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He received a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from West Virginia University.
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Chu received his doctorate in physics in 1976 from UC-Berkeley.
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Three years later, he received a doctorate in the natural sciences from the same school.
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And I think I should definitely be awarded my doctorate as soon as possible.
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Elizabeth visited Ivy not long after the University of Leeds had given her an honorary doctorate , in May 1960.
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For many years now, more than half the engineering doctorates awarded in the United States have gone to foreign nationals.
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In 1918 Piaget also completed his doctorate in biology, and he turned to psychology.
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It was high time she got down to serious thought about her doctorate .
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She then earned a doctorate in political sociology at City University of New York.
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The board approved doctorate degrees in communications and experimental psychology at North Dakota State University.
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They have doctorates in education, and pace the halls in jogging suits.