How to Use PhD in a Sentence

PhD

abbreviation or noun
  • Tyler, the Creator has a PhD in the art of the pop-up show.
    — Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 2025-07-24
  • Chris, who has put his PhD on hold, passes his days as a birder.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 2025-04-18
  • With the rarest of exceptions, it’s been led by a seasoned economist with a PhD in the field.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 2023-06-13
  • But in biotech, postdocs and PhD graduates can easily crack six figures.
    — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 2024-04-01
  • Google—a groundbreaking Stanford PhD project, also with zero ads—was just three months old.
    — Literary Hub, 2025-06-26
  • My PhD is paid for through my work as a teaching assistant or graduate student researcher.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 2024-10-02
  • Part of Rick’s PhD research was in motor skill acquisition.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 2024-05-06
  • In the world of restaurants, however, that’s like earning a PhD or receiving an Oscar.
    — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes, 2024-09-06
  • The parents had grown up in Canada but lived in multiple states while the mother did a PhD and secured a tenure-track teaching job.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 2024-12-16
  • Haley's father graduated from his PhD program in 1969, but didn't have many work prospects.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 2024-02-13
  • The real Lillian Gilbreth was a working woman with a PhD in psychology.
    — Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 2023-09-21
  • Carter-Williams, who has a PhD in public health, went through her own health crisis, surviving a heart attack and two strokes due to genetic heart disease.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 2025-02-19
  • Unimpressed with what the market had to offer, Wong—then a PhD student at Cambridge—decided to design his own.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 2024-03-11
  • Lisa Strauss, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in the Boston area.
    — Lisa Strauss, Washington Post, 2024-07-05
  • Next to me, members of the tribe's white corn co-op chatted with a PhD student who's been working with them to test different cover crops on the field, which are designed to protect the soil underneath.
    — Journal Sentinel, 2024-01-02
  • My PhD was fully funded with tuition waivers and varying stipends per year from a combination of fellowships, scholarships, and teaching or research assistantships.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 22 Aug. 2025
  • An alum of Cambridge and Oxford and currently a PhD candidate at Yale, Kuang’s sales total more than four million copies across all of her novels combined.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The study was led by Richelle van Capelleveen, an early career PhD student from Leiden University, and was co-led by a graduate student team at the University of Galway.
    — Abigail Adams, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Caleb teaches undergraduate, masters, MBA, and PhD students how to communicate and understand consumer behavior.
    — Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
  • When Faulk joined the Rams in 1999, new offensive coordinator Mike Martz realized his RB1 had a PhD in football.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
  • With a degree in biology, a PhD in chemistry, and his previous role at the Institute of Physics Publishing, Ian is taking a world tour through the different scientific disciplines.
    — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • As the drinks flow during a gathering of faculty and PhD students at their deluxe digs, Alma’s doting husband Frederick (Michael Stuhlbarg), another shrink, teasingly asks what happens if one of them gets tenure and the other doesn’t.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This piece from Simran Jeet Singh, PhD, was written for The Well, a Big Think publication created in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation.
    — Simran Jeet Singh, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Led by Terence Tarnowsky, PhD, a Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist and leader of the tritium production project, the research aimed to tackle the growing tritium shortage and repurpose radioactive waste.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Additionally, our team cross-referenced customer reviews from various retailers and leaned on our experts — Chris Winter, MD, Saana Baker, and Preeti Arya, PhD — for invaluable insights.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • From Lab Research to Industrial Reality Nicholas Flanders, co-founder of Twelve, met his co-founders Etosha Cave and Kendra Kuhl at Stanford, where their PhD research laid the groundwork for the company’s carbon transformation technology.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This set of personas was developed by an in-house research team, which is led by Nicholas Velotta, a PhD student at the University of Washington and Pepper Schwartz, PhD, a professor of sociology at University of Washington, after interviewing more than 50,000 couples.
    — Varuna Srinivasan, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t get too hung up on the parameters of one specific diet, though, Alice Lichtenstein, DSc, PhD, senior scientist and director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Team at the Tufts University Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, told Health.
    — Alisa Hrustic, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Clearly, deep thinking has its benefits, but the tendency to mull things over and search for meaning can be overwhelming for HSPs, too, Elizabeth Fedrick, PhD, LPC, owner of Evolve Counseling & Behavioral Health Services in Phoenix and professor of psychology at Grand Canyon University, tells SELF.
    — Nandini Maharaj, SELF, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Several, including former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with an official pointing to the President’s Executive Orders on antisemitism following Khalil’s arrest.
    — Solcyré Burga, Time, 19 Aug. 2025

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