How to Use nonacademic in a Sentence

nonacademic

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• Research shows play is a proven way for students to learn academic and nonacademic skills.
  — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2020
• How refreshing that someone has the courage to express the views shared by so many of the nonacademic population.
  — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 15 Apr. 2017
• If and when academic jobs rebound, Fuhrmann hopes the way will be open for scientists who took nonacademic jobs and would like to return.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2020
• The state is using that power to add a nonacademic factor, like a measure of absenteeism to the grading system.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2017
• The teenagers, as well as Spone’s daughter, were members of the Victory Vipers, a private, nonacademic cheerleading team in Doylestown.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• That initiative will allow the district to track students' skills — both academic and nonacademic — from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018
• To help pay for some of those athletic and other nonacademic needs, the district signed a 25-year naming rights agreement with Acuity Insurance.
  — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2019
• They were known for their surrealism, their nonacademic nature and their focus on the connections between the natural world and the human mind.
  — Martin Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• Luckily, there are plenty of nonacademic books about African politics out there.
  — Laura Seay, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017
• But some paleontologists are not pleased that the fossil is now in a collector’s home and will reside in a nonacademic institution in the coming months.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
• His all-volunteer role is a meeting point of his professional pursuits and his nonacademic passions.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Even students who lust for Ivy admission spend hundreds of hours a year in nonacademic pursuits because the most selective U.S. colleges think that’s a good sign of character and potential.
  — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2018
• Dining facilities will move to grab-and-go service and all nonacademic indoor events of 50 people or more through Feb. 6 will require special permission.
  — Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
• Travelers eligible for the vaccine were less likely to receive it at clinics in the South or at nonacademic medical centers.
  — NBC News, 16 May 2017
• Kieznerds organizers had hoped that a considerable part of the audience would be nonacademic.
  — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2018
• For Marinello, Abolition Apostles and its monthly meetings create spaces to discuss and learn about the prison-industrial complex through a nonacademic lens.
  — Clara Longo De Freitas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 July 2021
• Hannah-Jones’ tenure application was submitted to UNC’s trustees in 2020, but it was halted after a board member who vets the appointments raised questions about her nonacademic background.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2022
• Hannah-Jones' tenure application was submitted to UNC's trustees last year, but it was halted after a board member who vets the appointments raised questions about her nonacademic background.
  — Tom Foreman Jr. and Aaron Morrison, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• The very notion that a scholarly organization should take a stand on nonacademic issues was practically unheard of.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• In searching for the most vivid possible presentation of his subject, Lanzmann has been led to reinvent many of the principles of modernist and structuralist filmmaking, which here acquire a new kind of nonacademic urgency and justness.
  — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 9 Feb. 2018
• Hannah-Jones' tenure application was submitted to the university's trustees in 2020, but it was halted after a board member who vets the appointments raised questions about her nonacademic background.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
• Leaving aside that nonacademic opinion is no reason for punishing an academic, Mr. Treanor’s reaction is one more case of harassing dissenters.
  — Philip Hamburger, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• How big a threat to traditional colleges and universities are nonacademic providers of advanced education?
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• But for years now, nonacademic programs have proliferated on campus with the intention of preparing students for life on, and more importantly beyond, campus.
  — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• In an ideal world, researchers would be able to return benefits to the community without involving nonacademic external parties.
  — Brenna Henn, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2022
• History’s armies of nonacademic readers will find this obvious and undeniable.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• The partial recovery has taken place as the companies have found new sources of revenue—such as e-commerce—and made further inroads into college-test preparation, adult-education programs and nonacademic courses such as robotics and art.
  — Michelle Chan, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• If a district has nonacademic priorities, such as set-asides for children with disabilities, those in temporary housing or English-language learners, those preferences will remain as well.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Students from private schools were given higher nonacademic ratings for factors like glowing recommendations, compelling essays and personal statements.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 2 Aug. 2023
• Remote online learning also limited or curtailed student opportunities for socialization and nonacademic activities, the report said, causing many students to become disengaged or drop out of school.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024