academics

noun

plural of academic
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as in academicians

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as in scholars

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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
Noun
  • Most preschool teachers do not have a college degree and most earn little more than minimum wage.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • People who earn at least 50,000 pounds ($67,000) a year will only have to wait five years, as will public-sector workers including doctors, nurses and teachers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of teachers
Noun
  • Historians, scholars and philosophers are stepping in to offer some solutions and warnings.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • He has been joined in recent years by tax-skeptical scholars at the Manhattan Institute and Tax Foundation.
    — M. Nolan Gray, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of scholars
Noun
  • Attendance is up, teacher pay is at its highest level in district history, and more of our strongest educators are staying in the classroom.
    — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Nov. 2026
  • This clarification does not change the calculus for educators who want to allow students to search the Internet without AI tools.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of educators
Noun
  • This higher baseline expression in female brains could therefore help maintain activity across this network when other genes are disrupted.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Words and birds have become a meaningful part of their experiences, so their brains are tuned to the new information.
    — Woon Ju Park, The Conversation, 5 Nov. 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
  • The union represents approximately 2,500 instructors, counselors, librarians, college nurses and program coordinators at all campuses of the district.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Metzger is one of the class instructors in the Quest program, teaching a wide variety of subjects.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 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
Definition of schoolteachers

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“Academics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academics. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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