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Recent Examples of unacademic
Lymie is slight of build, shy and bookish, while Spud is athletic, outgoing and unacademic.
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New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 May 2020
New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unacademic
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Under exigency, the school may cut both nonacademic and academic staff, including tenured faculty.Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 16 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps nonacademic employers in those places would be smart to lure workers with family deals, just like the deans in higher ed.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Indiana is one of the few states that allow noneducational governmental agencies, such as the Indianapolis mayor’s office, to authorize charter schools.Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 4 May 2023
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Recommendations depend on a child’s age: Kids between the ages of 2 and 5 should not watch more than one hour of noneducational programming per weekday, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.Daniel Bortz, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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In Cherkashin, Nash Sovremennik presented a model genealogy as well as a model Pushkin scholar: a righteous, passionate, nonintellectual man of the people.Kathleen Parthé, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2022
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Such thumbnail indictments of the nonintellectual masses seemed to stem from Hofstadter’s own mounting sense of political and cultural homelessness in the postwar world.Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2020
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All extracurricular activities scheduled for Friday and Saturday will be canceled.Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
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Although Henderson’s extracurricular training perhaps drew more attention than that of his peers, the former Liverpool man is far from alone in using the off-season to make physical improvements.Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Anyone who says she wasn't properly screened is either ignorant or has an agenda.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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Who would go out of their way to remain ignorant in the face of an informative lecture on bunker oil?Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Ocean Water More uninformed complaints came in the form of the observation that L.A. is situated next to the Pacific Ocean, a seemingly inexhaustible abundance of water with which to put out fires.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
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If not, that information would better inform the reader of the very narrow scope and, in my opinion, the uninformed nature of this poll.Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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What Should the New Name Be? Clearly, the goal was a name that felt neither too highbrow nor too lowbrow, as restaurants have been trending toward an unstuffy seriousness for decades.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 10 July 2024
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Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher masterpiece embraced its lowbrow status with its matter-of-fact title and unapologetic gore, likely seen by many as a cheap attempt to ride shock value into a quick box office gold mine.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 21 Sep. 2024
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“Unacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacademic. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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