ACADEMICS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

academics

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plural of academic

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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Colin Gray’s sentencing represents the end of a harrowing road that began with the September 2024 shooting in which his son, then 14, fatally shot two students and two teachers and injured nine others at his Winder, Georgia, high school.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Faced with an assessment task that is squishy, particularly when dealing with students who are at the beginning of their growth as writers, many teachers have fallen back on structural measures.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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Emerging studies on leading AI models that have been specially trained by scholars to act as virtual Commanders-in-Chief, armed with massive arsenals of atomic arms, have been alarming.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

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Instead, parents and educators could consider the quality of digital experiences and what screen use may be displacing.

— Janice Mak, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Fashion Britain will bring together cities, cultural institutions, retailers, designers, businesses, educators and local communities, and unlock opportunities for designers, strengthen local creative economies and inspire the next generation.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 29 July 2026

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After nine years of breaking defensive coordinators' brains, the 35-year-old Swiss Army knife announced Wednesday that his run with the New Orleans Saints has come to an end.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
On MRIs, sometimes doctors can see little dots of scar tissue in the brains of people who get migraines.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 30 July 2026

Definition of brains

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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
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

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Receiving is an easier skill to improve than say, arm strength and athleticism, catching instructors say.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Aside from firearm education and training, Valkyrie plans to offer a host of special events, courses and instructors, the pair said.

— Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 25 July 2026

Definition of instructors

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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

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