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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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Mike Coppola / Getty Images Theater teacher Carl Gonzalez taught Jordan as a junior and senior and has been at the school for 24 years.—
Vanessa Murdock,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Travis Barker has worked with them, and every song is a Blink 182-level, class clown anthem about hot teachers and not wanting to leave your bedroom.—
Deborah Sengupta Stith,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Mehdi Razavi, 48, of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and Arezou Soltani, 45, of North Vancouver, British Columbia, were arrested in suspicion of murdering a former university math instructor and critic of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, police in Canada said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
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Under a group of old oak trees, instructor Juanita Rivas-Raymer has led free and bilingual yoga classes since 2023.—
Nicole Macias Garibay,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 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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Following nomination, a panel of arts educators carefully reviews submissions and selects up to 16 semifinalists in each discipline.—
Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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Moctezuma, as an educator, finds herself at the intersection of art, community and cultural identity.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 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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Woke doesn't just characterize academe, academe is from where almost every trope of woke originally came.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
26 Jan. 2026
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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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The East Bay schoolteacher also killed by gunfire was simply caught in the crossfire after a night out with friends, those same sources say.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Awaiting us is Garðar's official tour guide, Arnajaraq Bibi Bjerge, the town's schoolteacher and a mother of three, who leads us through Garðar's tall grasses and dandelions to the stone remains of the first cathedral on the North America continent (circa 1126).—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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This isn’t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
4 Mar. 2026
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Carroll balances it all as a full-time pedagogue.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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