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also academical
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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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as in academe
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Recent Examples of academic
Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
The bottom line: Recommendations for policymakers include creating training programs for the area's business workforce, fostering entrepreneurship, investing in infrastructure and leveraging an area's natural and academic assets.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
These programs, such as the regional innovation engines and convergence accelerator, seek to balance the traditional process of grant proposals written and evaluated by academics with broader societal demand for affordable health and environmental solutions.
—Arthur Daemmrich, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Last spring, district administrators introduced a plan for the current school year to closely monitor student academic performance in third and eighth grades, as well as freshmen.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
The bottom line: Recommendations for policymakers include creating training programs for the area's business workforce, fostering entrepreneurship, investing in infrastructure and leveraging an area's natural and academic assets.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
Lodge wrote the pro-business character of Wilcox to instruct the anti-business Penrose that economics is life, and that there are tradeoffs for all the feel-good things she and her fellow academics desire.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
These programs, such as the regional innovation engines and convergence accelerator, seek to balance the traditional process of grant proposals written and evaluated by academics with broader societal demand for affordable health and environmental solutions.
—Arthur Daemmrich, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for academic
Adjective
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It’s been largely overlooked, but the Palisades has its own rich intellectual history.—
Peter Kiefer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Jan. 2025
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The ribbon-cutting for a new Libertyville facility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities highlights the need for such services in a state with thousands of people stuck on a waitlist.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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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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This month, that work is being celebrated by the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, the advocacy organization founded by the father of Black History Month, scholar Carter G. Woodson.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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Typically, such studies are led by a prominent person of national distinction or a renowned scholar, and are carried out by a panel of national experts from academia, industry, the public sector and nongovernmental organizations.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Hudson’s bandmates—the guitarist Robbie Robertson, the drummer Levon Helm, the bassist Rick Danko, and the pianist and multi-instrumentalist Richard Manuel—often described him as scholarly, nimble, and discerning, a professor type at loose in a scene dominated by beautiful buffoons.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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Laymon said the suffrage monument on the Mall will draw on the diverse perspectives of its board and scholarly advisers, as well as the public.—
Jennifer Schuessler,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For the past two years the setting has been 90 seconds to midnight, with midnight meaning the theoretical annihilation of humanity, by design or by mistake.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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These are no longer theoretical applications; pilot programs in cities like Amsterdam and Singapore are already proving their feasibility.—
Nick Herbert,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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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
Adjective
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This perhaps comes through most clearly in the film’s surprisingly considerate treatment of religion, especially in a scholastic environment.—
Ryan Swen,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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Here is an important one: Were the poll respondents made aware of the actual number of transgender students participating in scholastic sports relative to the overall number of students participating in those programs, based upon either local, state, or national statistics?—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2025
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