How to Use academic year in a Sentence

academic year

noun
  • The start of a new academic year meant making changes, and fast, to students' routines.
    USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Moments after that, the Big Ten halted all competition through the end of the academic year.
    David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Before the academic year began, Ty’s mom sent an email to school officials asking for their help to make her son’s transition to eighth grade as smooth as possible.
    Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Scotland, whose academic year started already, implemented its own similar measures.
    Fortune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The attack on the school comes just two weeks into the start of the new academic year.
    Francis Ajumane and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Children spent the end of the last academic year at home.
    The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • But their opposition to the war didn’t end with the academic year.
    Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The team did log the flyers as a hate and bias incident, which will appear in a public report at the end of the academic year.
    Cristian Martinez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • For two students sharing a dorm room over an eight-month academic year, that works out to more than $2,500 a month to rent one room.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The long search forced schools to close at the start of the academic year, led to warnings for homeowners to lock their doors, and blocked roads over the busy Labor Day weekend.
    Maryclaire Dale, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The long search led to school closures right at the start of the academic year, warnings for homeowners to lock their doors and blocked roads over the busy Labor Day weekend.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Students make up about a fifth of the city’s population during the academic year.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Malone said Emerson’s move to the hotel — a move made at the last minute after the start of the 2019 academic year was delayed — was out of character.
    Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Hess and about 50 other Hillsboro teachers completed the first half of the training over the summer and will complete the second half by the end of the academic year.
    oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The middle school is one of six debuting this academic year in Prince George’s County.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Schools also returned to full-time, in-person instruction at the start of the new academic year in August.
    James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Thus far, a few dozen educators have come to learn more about Squads, and last academic year, a Seattle charter school took up the method.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
  • Parker Elementary, with a student body of roughly 300 children, was one of two schools that closed at the end of the last academic year.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2022
  • California used students’ home addresses that were on file at their schools at the start of the academic year in 2020 to mail the cards, Mascia said.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • East High School to add armed officers School would be canceled through the end of the week, and two armed officers would be stationed at the school through the end of the academic year, Marrero said.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Latest maps Schools are set to reopen on Friday, which marks the last day of the academic year for many public schools in the country, officials said.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 13 June 2024
  • That will be determined closer to the start of the new academic year based on public health guidance, according to the news release.
    Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Two dozen students worked on the Solar Futures House over a period of two academic years, rotating in and out of the project as part of their coursework.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • About 50 students will have to return to their neighborhood schools or find other schools for next academic year.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2024
  • She is expected to have an active role in the transition and running the college during the next academic year.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The walkout unfolds at a crucial time in the academic year, as classes end and capstone projects, finals and grading are ahead — work in which union members play a key role.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Things got heated this summer when some members sent vulgar messages during a meeting to discuss when the first day of the new academic year would be.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Tens of thousands of students will be impacted in the upcoming academic year.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The university is one of many across the country to have held pro-Palestinian demonstrations during the final weeks of the academic year.
    Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
  • In Pakistan, for instance, severe flooding closed schools for more than three months – or roughly half a typical academic year – in 2022.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024

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