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as in educational
of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level
"If you spent more time in academic pursuits and less time in social ones, you could easily make good grades," the dean told Valerie
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as in intellectual
very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical matters
academic thinkers who have no understanding of realpolitik
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as in theoretic
existing only as an assumption or speculation
your arguments are merely academic—such a worst-case scenario is unlikely to ever occur
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Recent Examples of academic
Kori Hale, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Family members applauded and cheered, celebrating both his academic achievement and his birthday in unison.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2024
Symbolic capitalists—academics, commentators, lawyers, consultants—manipulate words or data rather than making things with their hands.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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Its influence reaches way beyond traditional academic boundaries and supports about one in every four jobs in the local area.
—Kori Hale, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Family members applauded and cheered, celebrating both his academic achievement and his birthday in unison.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Welcome to the Cincinnati Enquirer Student of the Week vote of 2024-2025, honoring excellence in character, arts and academics among high school students from Dec. 9-13.
—Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2024
Symbolic capitalists—academics, commentators, lawyers, consultants—manipulate words or data rather than making things with their hands.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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By giving Jim imagined dialogues with Enlightenment philosophers like Voltaire and Locke, Everett further challenges the dehumanizing perceptions of enslaved individuals and underscores Jim’s intellectual depth.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
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Godard’s intellectual approach never turns skeptical.Armond White, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024
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His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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That points to a missed opportunity, because even a little self-reflection would reveal much in 21st-century academe that will one day look as repellent as the earlier bias against Jews.The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2022
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Adrian Miller, the soul food scholar who eats black-eyed peas on New Year's Day, says since the tradition's origin is not set in stone, neither is the day it's observed.Luis Giraldo, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Gay also faced criticisms over allegations of plagiarism when conservative scholar Carol Swain accused Gay of stealing her work without an appropriate citation.Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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There is a lot of scholarly research regarding the ins and outs of wintertime blues.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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But plenty of scholarly studies have confirmed formaldehyde’s presence in our everyday lives and mirror our findings.Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
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Both have theoretical appeal as a refuge from wider geopolitical and market volatility, though this has not always borne out for crypto prices.Jenni Reid, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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The decision leaves open a theoretical possibility another prosecutor could take over the case, but the path forward remains precarious.Brett Samuels, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
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Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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That committee was the brainchild of two men, William Rusher, the publisher of National Review, and his longtime collaborator, F. Clifton White, a lapsed and low-keyed academician from upstate New York.Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 9 July 2024
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Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.Bruce Holsinger, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
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In the 1970s and ’80s, a flamboyant Texas bookman and one-time president of the ABAA named John Jenkins made money selling stolen and forged items to libraries and collectors.Travis McDade, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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Public health, the work of public health cannot be principally scholastic.Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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“Academic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academic. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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