unacademic

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Recent Examples of unacademic Lymie is slight of build, shy and bookish, while Spud is athletic, outgoing and unacademic. 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • Unfortunately, this isn't the case because admissions officers consider many academic and nonacademic factors.
    Kristen Moon, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Jermaine has not only maintained an outstanding GPA of above 4.0 but has also immersed himself in various extracurricular activities that reflect his commitment to personal and professional growth.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Other elements of the college application picture, such as test scores, class rank, essays and extracurricular activities are an integral part of showcasing who a student really is.
    Bonnie Kleffman, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The juxtaposition of ignorant tourism and seemingly backwards folk religions produces the kind of gruesome friction that horror filmmakers love to exploit.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Many Americans remain ignorant of this history, and the organizers behind these projects want to educate them about it — with the hope history won't repeat itself.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The following cogitations, therefore, are not totally uninformed noisy opining.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Theres been a lot of negative noise around Lukaku which has been lazy and uninformed imo.
    Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 30 June 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 21 Dec. 2024.

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