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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
Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
In fact, there's a variety of dining seating available, from two-top dining tables to longer eight-seaters, all of which are punctuated by rich leather upholstery and even a faux fireplace designed to evoke the city’s academic history.
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2024
Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
The scholar track is geared toward writers, academics, and theorists in the subjects of new media and digital art and technology and culture.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Through its Mind over Music program, Phoenix Symphony musicians work with teachers to help students learn key academic concepts, critical thinking, problem-solving and teamwork through music.
—Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
In fact, there's a variety of dining seating available, from two-top dining tables to longer eight-seaters, all of which are punctuated by rich leather upholstery and even a faux fireplace designed to evoke the city’s academic history.
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2024
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Some academics have the further worry that spouses fill up jobs that could have gone to other, more qualified candidates.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
The scholar track is geared toward writers, academics, and theorists in the subjects of new media and digital art and technology and culture.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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American culture, society, and education broadly divides people into two separate intellectual camps from childhood: left brain thinkers adept at logic and math and right brained thinkers geared toward creativity.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Once the police have deposited Elwood in Nickel’s run-down barracks for Black inmates, Ross extends the dramatic force of his method while expanding its intellectual scope.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 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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That year, Morgan’s son, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., or Jack, made his father’s library a public institution, easily accessible to scholars.Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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But work and organization scholar Philip Hancock offers a different angle on the familiar image of the Santa Claus-for-hire: that of a worker in a temporary seasonal service job.Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 15 Dec. 2024
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As higher education continued to develop, facilities and programs burnished scholarly reputations as modern universities emerged in cities like Paris and Bologna.Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Young Ed Klum was musical, scholarly, and athletic.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
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But unlike the 2023 interview, the topics Welker brought up and Trump's response to them are no longer theoretical campaign promises.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Such a sweeping act of clemency covering even theoretical crimes over the course of a decade went beyond the scope of any since at least the Watergate era, when President Gerald R. Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, for any crimes even though he had not been charged.Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 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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This initiative, which supports multiple languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, leverages a diverse network of academicians, researchers, tech platforms, and fact checkers.Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 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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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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Public health, the work of public health cannot be principally scholastic.Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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“Academic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academic. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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