didact

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Recent Examples of didact Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons. David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018 At the present moment, many Americans feel as Boston’s didacts once did: desperate to see their country regain a sense of common perspective and fellow feeling that once existed, if only in myth. Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for didact
Noun
  • The result is teacher layoffs and less opportunity for the students who are attending public schools.
    Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In 2023, Governor J.B. Pritzker, following teachers union directives, refused to renew the modest Invest in Kids program that offered several thousand low-income children an escape route from underperforming schools.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Little kids can learn to ski here with a individual or group lesson, and the instructors are extraordinary both in terms of getting on the student’s individual wavelength and teaching foundational skills that will last a lifetime.
    Kim Westerman, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Rhonda Stewart is a senior instructor/associate professor at Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte Campus.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.
    Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • This Jet Ski Is Not a Jet Ski Incidentally, for the pedants out there (WIRED salutes you), technically this is not a jet ski, but a personal watercraft, or PWC.
    WIRED, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • There are amazing educators and teachers that love children and uplift them and support them from all backgrounds.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
  • With 90% of K-12 salary funding coming from non-federal sources, many educators feel overlooked in federal budget priorities.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.
    Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • In 1998, Anderson’s mother, Heather, a schoolteacher, was on a shopping trip in the town of Omagh and only narrowly avoided being caught up in a devastating explosion from a car bomb.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • White residents target a husband and wife on Christmas Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette V. Moore, both schoolteachers in Mims, Florida, founded Brevard County’s NAACP in 1934.
    Essence, Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.
    Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022

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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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