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
  • Natalia is currently studying for her GED, dreaming of one day becoming a teacher, People reports.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly a year later, in October 2024, the Steubenville teacher and thousands of other pro-lifers (including some of his students) converged on Capitol Square in Columbus for the Ohio March for Life.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Swami Chandrasekaran, an A.I. expert and principal at KPMG, said the gains included using the software assistant as a kind of automated instructor to bring new members of a development team up to speed quickly.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor at the University of Tennessee at Martin, emphasized the necessity of implementing changes to ensure Social Security's viability for future generations.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 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
  • Breastfeeding educators will discuss the benefits and the common challenges of breastfeeding.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025
  • This paperwork-heavy process not only burns out educators but also diverts resources away from the students who need them most.
    Scott White, Forbes, 18 Feb. 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
  • Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, moved across the country following the death of his dissolute, larger-than-life father, and made a series of homes in mill towns north of Boston with his mother, who was a schoolteacher, and his younger sister.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The sickening explosion, on a clear and cold January morning, was witnessed by children in classrooms across the country because the crew included Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire schoolteacher who was to be the first American civilian in space.
    Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 21 Feb. 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 3 Mar. 2025.

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