academics

Definition of academicsnext
plural of academic

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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. Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Stanford scholars forecast that average households may spend $857 more on gasoline in 2026.
    ByBryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Science communication scholars originally ascribed to a top-down, one-way model of communication.
    Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Recently, the state’s largest teachers union, alongside everyday parents, filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida alleging a continued failure to adequately invest in public education.
    Maxine Ann-Marie Lewers, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2026
  • Ahead of the March board meeting, the district approved a contract with the teachers union that meant there would be no layoffs for the teaching staff.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Early childhood education touches every part of our economy, so businesses, policymakers, educators and families all have valuable perspectives to bring to the table.
    Robert E. Buchanan, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2026
  • Craft Education plays a key role in enabling this coordination, providing a platform that brings together employers, educators, and policymakers while tracking progress across each stage of learning.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Our brains were going into overdrive.
    Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • This trade-off is a likely explanation for why regeneration is so rare among vertebrates with large, complex brains.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
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
Noun
  • Abercrombie studied under more than 10 instructors while expanding into other styles, including modern, flamenco and character dance.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
  • The platform acts as a gradebook, a hub for digital lectures and course materials, a discussion board for classroom projects, and a messaging platform between students and instructors.
    Kelvin Chan, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • The Kremlin also released footage Monday of Putin driving to personally pick up one of his old schoolteachers, Vera Gurevich, from a hotel lobby with a bouquet of flowers and an enthusiastic embrace before taking her for dinner at the Kremlin.
    Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • For schoolteachers, this is worse than whiplash, because there’s a crucial difference between the American-history-is-all-bad or -all-good preferences of the left or the right.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026

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“Academics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academics. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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