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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.
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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
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
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While there will be growing pains trying to enforce a new policy halfway through the school year, Schumacher said this policy will ultimately support teachers and staff.Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
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The high school and preschool campus, not far away, survived thanks to teachers and families who staved off flames.Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Expert instructors will teach you how to get started, practical uses, tips for effective prompt-writing, and mistakes to avoid.Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
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There’s no national governing body for swim instructors.Erik Vance, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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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
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As corporations roll back their DEI policies amid shifting tides of political discourse, I am reminded that, for educators, abandoning this work is not an option.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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This vision cannot be propelled by one segment alone, but by the collective effort of policymakers, health care leaders, educators, and community members.Ann Marie P. Mauro, New York Daily News, 11 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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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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According to a 2006 article by The Telegraph, Law's parents Peter and Margaret were schoolteachers who married in 1967.Tommy McArdle, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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The sisters, both schoolteachers, looked so much alike everyone had trouble telling them apart — especially their young students.Natalie Morales, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2024
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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
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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 20 Jan. 2025.
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