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didact

noun

Definition of didact

as in teacher

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Recent Examples of didact Gordon Chester, 39, a city engineering technician in the public works department, is an urban housing policy auto-didact. — Mercury News Editorial Board, Mercury News, 27 May 2026 Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons. — David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018 The most unlikely challenge to Boston’s visual didacts came from those who couldn’t see at all. — Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018

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Noun

Leaders of the state’s largest teachers union plan to focus their efforts on passing Proposition 3, which would make permanent an existing tax on certain high earners to fund schools and community colleges.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Students identified the teacher as Dan Champ, an eighth-grade history teacher and associated student body adviser at Granite Oaks Middle School.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

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According to prosecutors, Pocovi, who was leading a group of seven divers, violated safety protocols and regulations governing professional diving instructors, La Nacion reported.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
The series follows a young Haitian man devoted to caring for his ailing grandmother who forms an unexpected connection with nursing instructor and is forced to confront the balance between love, family, responsibility and self-discovery.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 July 2026

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Rarely is there much conceptual overlap between the categories of pedant and genius.

— Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
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

Definition of pedant

Noun

The framing story follows Toño, a struggling writer, would-be academician and lifelong devotee of traditional Peruvian creole music.

— Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 24 May 2026
Church did not, however, neglect the National Academy, and in 1849—in the midst of bloody riots pitting nativists against immigrants and New York’s working class against the wealthy—he was promoted to full academician status.

— Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of academician

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From creator, writer, executive producer, and star Diarra Kilpatrick, Season 1 follows Diarra, a divorcing schoolteacher who refuses to believe she’s been ghosted by her rebound Tinder date.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 July 2026
Love and empathy Dog School started in 2009, when former schoolteacher Adrienne Olivier was volunteering at a local animal shelter and conducting outreach activities in schools and other community spaces.

— Patricia Huon, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026

Definition of schoolteacher

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The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.

— News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026

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