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Science, principally, reportedly grabs students (8)

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I believe the answer is:

scholars

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'students' is the definition.
('scholar' can be a synonym of 'student')

'science principally reportedly grabs' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'science' could be 'sc' and 'sc' is located in the answer.
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(Other definitions for scholars that I've seen before include "Learned people, especially in the humanities" , "Learned people who have studied long" , "Cross Hal mixed with pupils" , "Pupils or learned people" , "Very learned persons" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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