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"studies" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often researches (10 letters).
Definitions
Learns about, examines, or academic works.
Used in a sentence
“My boyfriend is taking media studies.”
“Technology studies is not yet well established as an academic discipline in its own right but a serious body of both scholarly and popular literature in the field is now emerging.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Learns about”7 letters
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