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Recent Examples of academics
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
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Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for academics
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The phrase also sometimes is used as a battle cry and has been employed by those with a nefarious agenda to instill fear of anyone who utters it and to raise concerns about Islam itself, according to Muslim scholars and civil rights advocates.—
Michelle Krupa,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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The museum, focused on the arts, history and technology, will draw tourists and scholars from around the world.—
Dorothy Jenkins Fields,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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All 69 schools will be closed next Tuesday and Wednesday to give teachers time to prepare an online curriculum.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
15 Jan. 2026
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What to do about it The Brookings report offers a long list of recommendations to help parents, teachers and policymakers — not to mention tech companies themselves — harness the good of AI without subjecting children to the risks that the technology currently poses.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
14 Jan. 2026
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South County civic leaders and educators believe this synergy could convince a major institution — possibly UCSD — to eventually establish a branch campus on land owned by the city of Chula Vista.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Created through the Manilow Music Project, a program of the Manilow Fund, the Manilow Music Teacher Award honors educators whose passion and dedication help bring music to life for their students.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2026
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Their brains are dramatically different in size, structure, and function.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Jan. 2026
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The skin, guts, and brains are the same but made of different things.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Sep. 2025
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Unused to the diet, heat and poor hygiene, Ramírez fell ill, though neither diarrhea nor stomach cramps prevented him from complaining vociferously about his accommodation, arguing with his instructors about tactics and questioning his hosts’ more grandiose claims of military prowess.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
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The volume of writing was overwhelming for instructors, even in 1982 when the rule went into effect.—
David Head,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2026
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The first year, delegates from the local party leadership and schoolteachers gathered parents and instructed them in how to decorate a tree.—
Andrew Fedorov,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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Law was raised in the London borough of Lewisham by parents who were schoolteachers who were involved in amateur theater.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
14 Nov. 2025
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“Academics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academics. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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