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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
Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
The firm has already been clear about serious issues in the district, finding that many students learn in outdated facilities that are either wasting space or overcrowded, all while access to specialty academic programs is unequal across the city and overall enrollment is falling.
—Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024
Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
On Monday, Hawaii officials and invasive species workers and academics shared their views on Hawaii's invasive species problems.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Right-leaning causes are amplified, in particular former President Donald Trump’s electoral campaign, according to academic research, public opinion surveys, data on X’s most influential users, engagement metrics and reports about X’s working directly with the Trump campaign.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
The firm has already been clear about serious issues in the district, finding that many students learn in outdated facilities that are either wasting space or overcrowded, all while access to specialty academic programs is unequal across the city and overall enrollment is falling.
—Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2024
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However, while both visa categories may appeal professionals, entrepreneurs, and academics seeking to establish themselves in the U.S., the application processes and criteria differ significantly.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
On Monday, Hawaii officials and invasive species workers and academics shared their views on Hawaii's invasive species problems.
—CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024
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The aim, according to its course description, is to use her work as a lens through which to examine Black intellectual thought and activism.Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Based out of West Valley College in Saratoga, the College of Adaptive Arts is a nonprofit that provides college programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 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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Lawyers and scholars would pass judgment, and cross-partisan pro-democracy coalitions would need to emerge to support and legitimize the states’ contentious actions.Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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According to the scholar Maria Tatar, these were folktales shared among adults after hours, while the children were asleep.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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My scholarly research has identified emerging climate risk here due to the wide range of extreme weather events experienced and the number of vulnerable, less-resilient communities.Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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In the 1880s, in scholarly Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professed divinator has kept for years a large business-like and soberly worded advertisement of his services.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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Eventually, a theoretical picture emerged for the supersolid.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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These partnerships are crucial for pushing quantum computing beyond its theoretical potential and into practical, scalable business solutions.Yuval Boger, Forbes, 5 Nov. 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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This initiative, which supports multiple languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, leverages a diverse network of academicians, researchers, tech platforms, and fact checkers.Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 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 24 Nov. 2024.
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