as in school
a place or establishment for teaching and learning
the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe
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Recent Examples of academe
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.
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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.
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Katherine Rosman,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2023
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.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
13 Oct. 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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for academe
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That proposal drew opposition from unions and associations representing teachers and school employees.
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The academy’s director and owner Leslie Novoa told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Monday night that the child was an 18-month-old boy who attended the school.
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That hit Inter’s radar and the Serie A champions were keen to pair Palestra, their former academy player, with Dimarco this summer.
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The Zinfandel First Responder Training Facility, at 3801 Zinfandel Drive, will serve as the district’s permanent training academy, preparing recruits and other first responders who protect more than 750,000 residents in Sacramento and Placer counties.
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