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Recent Examples of academics
The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.
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New Atlas, 29 May 2026
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
—Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
New Atlas, 29 May 2026
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
—Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for academics
Noun
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Five security scholars interviewed by Reuters agreed the infrastructure broadly could support China’s nuclear program, as well as other military purposes.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
29 May 2026
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Our scholars in Park Heights deserve a true athletic experience.—
Madeline Burke,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
Noun
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And grants to districts to train teachers or recruit school mental health workers have been discontinued for mentions of diversity in recruitment.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
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So was Walnut Creek School District’s Measure L, which asked voters to approve an annual $98 per parcel tax for nine years, which the district said would be used to attract and retain teachers, fund academic programs and maintain class sizes.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Noun
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The states argued that the policy impedes their ability to hire primary and secondary school educators and to staff public colleges and universities, will stymie academic research and will lead to a decline in medical workers.—
Michael Casey,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Within a decade, more than a third of social-studies educators were coaching sports or teaching phys ed.—
Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
Noun
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The ancient tile game of Mahjong is making a major comeback in the United States, and for a group of local women, the surge in popularity is good news for their brains.—
Lauren Pastrana,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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Some may have brains that are naturally more adept at carrying out the rewiring required for multitasking than others.—
David Cox,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Unions representing graduate workers, adjuncts and non-tenure-track instructors have organized in recent years at several campuses, including New York University, Columbia and Harvard.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Those scenes' lighthearted whimsy, featuring late-night hijinks with classmates pranking grumpy instructors, pays off in the story's earliest tragedies.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Public schoolteachers are also holding separate talks regarding salary improvements.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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The Kremlin also released footage Monday of Putin driving to personally pick up one of his old schoolteachers, Vera Gurevich, from a hotel lobby with a bouquet of flowers and an enthusiastic embrace before taking her for dinner at the Kremlin.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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“Academics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academics. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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