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as in educational
of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level
"If you spent more time in academic pursuits and less time in social ones, you could easily make good grades," the dean told Valerie
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as in intellectual
very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical matters
academic thinkers who have no understanding of realpolitik
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as in theoretic
existing only as an assumption or speculation
your arguments are merely academic—such a worst-case scenario is unlikely to ever occur
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Recent Examples of academic
Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Similarly, algorithms, or new ideas for how to improve AI systems, move across borders with ease, as new techniques are often shared in academic papers.
—Harry Booth, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Eric Nost, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
The influx of settlers and tourists displaced Native Hawaiians, limited their access to land, and diluted their cultural heritage, according to academics.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Actually, the fact that Notre Dame later had to vacate all the wins from that season because of an academic scandal could have been the sign that he was destined for the SEC.
—Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Similarly, algorithms, or new ideas for how to improve AI systems, move across borders with ease, as new techniques are often shared in academic papers.
—Harry Booth, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
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Similar actions during Trump’s first administration reduced the number of academics and representatives of nongovernmental organizations on these boards, while increasing the number of industry consultants.
—Eric Nost, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
The influx of settlers and tourists displaced Native Hawaiians, limited their access to land, and diluted their cultural heritage, according to academics.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Increasingly, the left is losing the intellectual battle as well.Dwight Garner, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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During those days, the country’s intellectual and scientific communities were largely based on the East Coast while California remained the Wild West as far as some were concerned.Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
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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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As technology improves and allows better reading of the manuscript, scholars continue to debate the content of the document and how the fragments should be put together in the hopes of gaining even more insight into Hellenic religion and philosophy of the time.Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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Michael Wara, an energy and climate scholar at Stanford University, said the state’s entire insurance landscape, not just the California’s wildfire fund, might have to be recalibrated if a utility company were found to have caused a major L.A. fire.Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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These research reports and scholarly articles explain how.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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Researchers often comb through reams of scholarly works.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
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The theoretical matchups fans anticipated during the offseason are finally starting to play out on the court, adding a new wrinkle to the traditional rivalries of league play.Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Each year, the Robot – a naïve stock-picking paradigm, generates a theoretical portfolio of ten very unpopular stocks.John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 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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Subsequent chapters explore great bookmen of the Renaissance, from the Florentine tradesman Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Flemish illuminator Simon Bening to the English antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton — manuscript obsessives all.Bruce Holsinger, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
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In the 1970s and ’80s, a flamboyant Texas bookman and one-time president of the ABAA named John Jenkins made money selling stolen and forged items to libraries and collectors.Travis McDade, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
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Here is an important one: Were the poll respondents made aware of the actual number of transgender students participating in scholastic sports relative to the overall number of students participating in those programs, based upon either local, state, or national statistics?Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
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Sanders won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Academic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academic. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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