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Examples of academe in a Sentence
the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe
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In academe, the forbidden ideas are typically conservative ones.
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Colleges provide a distinctive sense of place, of course, and while Washington may not be the quintessential college town, the groves of academe still extend their tendrils here and there.
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The eggheads of academe dissect the president’s efforts to make an enemy of the press.
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Origin and Etymology of academe
borrowed from Latin Acadēmus (in the phrase inter silvās Acadēmī, “among the groves of Academus,” from Horace's Epistulae), borrowed from Greek Akádēmos — more at academy
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