ACADEMICS Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

academics

noun

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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Noun

To protect the rights of immigrant children, teachers must clearly inhabit their role as the reliable adult.

— Hannah Harshe, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026
Through that partnership, UWG will work with the department and the center to develop an apprenticeship model that provides credit for prior learning and expands mentoring and support for new teachers.

— Eric Stirgus, AJC.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of teachers

Noun

The attacks have drawn intense scrutiny from some Democratic lawmakers and military legal scholars.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Many international scholars have described Mao as an authoritarian leader, pointing to his centralized rule, political purges, and aggressive state campaigns, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of scholars

Noun

Saunders was there for one season, succeeding Mike Hancock, who resigned while citing anxiety, grief and depression in the wake of a 2024 school shooting that left two students and two educators dead.

— Caitlyn Stroh-Page, AJC.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Early-childhood educators earn a national median near $27,000.

— Nathan Bruschi, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of educators

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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

Noun

Exotic was shot during a recent real-life edition of a pole-dancing Exo Stars Camp featuring real participants and instructors, maintaining the authenticity of this vivid bubble.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2026
The program provides classroom and hands-on experience in the energy industry, with instructors like Derrick McKinney.

— Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of instructors

Noun

In Spain, elementary and secondary schoolteachers began an indefinite strike in Madrid last week to demand better pay and working conditions.

— Teresa Medrano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Schock grew up in Santa Clarita, California, the daughter of two schoolteachers.

— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

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