academics

noun

plural of academic
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as in academicians

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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. — 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
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  1. teachers
  2. scholars
  3. educators
  4. brains
  5. pedants
  6. instructors
  7. schoolteachers
Noun
  • First-year teachers with a master’s degree range from $60,000 to $62,000 per year, depending on the number of credits.
    — Taylor O'Connor July 15, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
  • That brought pay for most starting teachers in the district to around $44,500.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026
Definition of teachers
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  • Legal scholars have warned that attacks on infrastructure with wide civilian use in some circumstances could constitute a war crime under international law.
    — NPR Staff, NPR, 17 July 2026
  • As noted by Variety, some scholars believe the island inspired the location where Homer imagined Odysseus and his crew stopping to roast goats and replenish their supplies.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
Definition of scholars
Noun
  • Rumors swirled that Nakamura and other trustees maintained a list of those educators.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
  • But by the 1920s, orphanages began to fall out of favor among educators and psychologists.
    — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
Definition of educators
Noun
  • The man singing with Bridgers was, in fact, Dan Reeder, an oddball folk singer-songwriter, longtime visual artist, and instrument maker who’s developed a cult following for his beautifully simple songs about butterflies and beachballs and brains.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026
  • Scientists have found that humans evolved to rely on each other, and our brains are hardwired to seek out relationships and community, not only for joy and comfort, but for survival.
    — Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Definition of brains
Noun
  • 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
  • As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
    — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
Definition of pedants
Noun
  • Best Manduka yoga mats This yoga mat is highly recommended by yoga instructors.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
  • Some sailings bring special guest photographers and photo instructors onboard, while some National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions even feature a gear locker where people can borrow and try out new equipment for a short time.
    — Kristen E. Pope, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2026
Definition of instructors
Noun
  • Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
  • At those gatherings, there will be fans like these two schoolteachers, who have saved their money for decades to watch the world’s best play all over the world.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
Definition of schoolteachers

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