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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for academics
  1. teachers
  2. scholars
  3. educators
  4. brains
  5. pedants
  6. instructors
  7. schoolteachers
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  • With that money, the foundation offered to train 82 Orange County public school teachers for free.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The law requires districts developing their policies to obtain input from teachers’ representatives, administrators and parents or guardians.
    — Kavin Bendre, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of teachers
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  • Only in the 21st century have historians and scholars in the study of religion pursued more cautious academic research on Hoodoo.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Gittelsohn, a painter who attended the now-shuttered San Francisco Art Institute in the 1970s, located across the street from the couple’s home, reached out to about 50 scholars and art experts about the origins of the bust.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of scholars
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  • In 2025 alone, Abbott said Texas saw more than 1,600 allegations of improper relationships between educators and students.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The district also took time to highlight its multilingual educators.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of educators
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  • Next, the researchers wanted to know if the same areas of the dogs’ brains would respond to other emotions.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Devey’s parents and family rack their brains, trying to figure out how their son’s mental state drove him to that point.
    — PJ Green August 13, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 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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  • By 2021 only 32% had that status, and the rest were adjunct instructors or contract faculty.
    — Paul Osterman, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Suddenly there are multiple instructors, schedules and communities and thousands of parent interactions.
    — Ignacio Carranza, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of instructors
Noun
  • Several schoolteachers described bringing the nest cam into their classrooms as a learning tool.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Schock grew up in Santa Clarita, California, the daughter of two schoolteachers.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of schoolteachers

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