Sample Sentences for
adjunct
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    The adjunct's salary is lower than that of full-time professors.
    adjunct = temporary or part time faculty member
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    His idea is radical, and in another era would have been a fringe notion espoused by an eccentric adjunct professor somewhere: that all information, personal or not, should be known by all.  (source)
    adjunct = temporary or part time faculty member (not something someone as responsible as a tenured professor would say)
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    I'm an adjunct professor there.  (source)
    adjunct = part-time instructor
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    Awesome, and our once and former judge was an adjunct professor at Harvard Law, where Gates was a student in two of his classes.  (source)
    adjunct = part-time instructor
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    I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clew, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse.  (source)
    adjuncts = accompanying items
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    not explaining, asking for no exculpation: just told Grandfather how he had put his first wife aside like eleventh and twelfth century kings did: 'I found that she was not and could never be, through no fault of her own, adjunctive or incremental to the design which I had in mind, so I provided for her and put her aside.'†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    But it was either that or adjuncting in New York.†  (source)
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    Smiled warmly at his old campaigner, his loyal champion, his adjunct, that marvelous singer of the old songs who had rallied his spirit during times of distress and discouragement, who ...  (source)
    adjunct = assistant
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    Back then, Burundi and Rwanda were essentially tiny adjuncts of the vast Belgian Congo.†  (source)
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    Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence.  (source)
    adjunct = useful addition
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    He had neither light nor bell nor had he a brake, but what use are such adjuncts in a land where the cyclist's only hope is to coast from face to face, and just before he collides with each it vanishes?†  (source)
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    And possibly I would have a chance to discover just who this young inspector adjunct reminded me of.†  (source)
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    As necessary adjuncts to the flask, he silently placed tumbler and water-jug before the irrepressible guest.†  (source)
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