academe
noun
ac·a·deme
ˈa-kə-ˌdēm 
ˌa-kə-ˈdēm
Examples of academe in a Sentence
the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe
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Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.
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Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
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
But her decision to mix it up beyond the halls of academe has also landed her in the middle of a nasty social media drama and a Hollywood dispute.
—Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
Pragmatism begins on the streets and exchanges, and is later articulated in the halls of academe.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
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Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
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
But her decision to mix it up beyond the halls of academe has also landed her in the middle of a nasty social media drama and a Hollywood dispute.
—Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
Pragmatism begins on the streets and exchanges, and is later articulated in the halls of academe.
—Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
See All Example Sentences for academe
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“Academe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academe. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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