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.
—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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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
Noun
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Blue-and-white interiors are exuberant (nothing nautical-twee here) and new-school Aussie.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Carney said antisemites in Canada have fired bullets at Jewish schools and thrown firebombs at synagogues and attacked community centers.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Elite academy instructors began translating the latest sports science data and techniques, analysing world-class matches from overseas to improve their players, according to North Korean media.—
Andrew McNicol,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
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Barcelona founded its famed La Masia academy in 1979.—
Andy Yamashita,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2026
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“Academe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academe. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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