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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дополнительный"
}
],
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"adjunct"
],
"word": "adjunct"
}
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"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yewg-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"Rhymes:English/ædʒʌŋkt",
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"name": "uder"
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"4": "join to"
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"2": "adjoint"
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"singular",
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"present"
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{
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"word": "adjuncting"
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{
"ref": "2015 November 24, Noah Davis, quoting Monica Brannon, “How Do You Make a Living, Visiting Professor?”, in Pacific Standard, Santa Barbara, C.A.: The Miller-McCune Center […], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-18",
"text": "I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2017 April 15, Emily Jordan, “Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO's \"Girls\" and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-08-23",
"text": "A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 July 26, Donte Kirby, quoting Tronster Hartley, “Want to break into tech? Software devs say to learn these coding languages”, in Technical.ly, archived from the original on 2022-12-09",
"text": "I wish I had a cut and dry answer to this question. When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.",
"type": "quotation"
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"To work as an adjunct professor."
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},
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