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Recent Examples of didact
Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons.
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David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
At the present moment, many Americans feel as Boston’s didacts once did: desperate to see their country regain a sense of common perspective and fellow feeling that once existed, if only in myth.
—Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
At the present moment, many Americans feel as Boston’s didacts once did: desperate to see their country regain a sense of common perspective and fellow feeling that once existed, if only in myth.
—Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for didact
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From Woodland to Rocklin and even Natomas, teachers in the Sacramento region are prepared to strike as soon as the spring.—
Madisen Keavy,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, David was a teacher and football coach at the neighboring school, Alief Hastings.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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From practical to fascinating OLLI instructors are volunteers, including many UNT faculty members who take time to lead classes.—
Kelley Bruss,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Devanshu Mehrotra, lead instructor of data science and data analytics at General Assembly, tells Fortune that these figures represent an expectation gap between employers and their workforce.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Avery, the heroine of Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel, Flat Earth (Catapult, $26), spends many turgid nights with a pedant.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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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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In these and other cases, districts concluded the incidents did not amount to antisemitism or discrimination — rulings the state disagreed with, saying educators had not complied with state requirements and had violated anti-discrimination law.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2026
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The high risk of injury or death has spawned activism from teachers and students, as well as the uptick of educators quitting the profession.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
12 Jan. 2026
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There’s little scaffolding or bridging, virtually no space given to centralized agencies, which most development academicians would agree still have their place.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.—
Charles Rotblut,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2024
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The longtime San Diegan worked as an acrobat, in airplane manufacturing, as a schoolteacher and in the real estate industry.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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His dad, a former logger, and his mom, a former schoolteacher, founded West Wind in 2000.—
Stephanie Pearson,
Outside,
14 Jan. 2026
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Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.—
Sergei Revzin,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
18 July 2025
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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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