didact

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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. 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
Noun
  • This Greenville County School District teacher is no longer employed with the district after having been placed on leave.
    Amy DeLaura, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Learn from three expert instructors how to showcase your skills, build a stellar reputation, and create a digital presence that AI can't replicate.
    Dr. Sue Varma, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Transitioning to American Standards Manuylov eventually came to work as a snowboard instructor at a resort in Southern California after receiving an invitation from old business partners to change locations.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Incidentally, for the pedants out there (WIRED salutes you), technically this is not a jet ski, but a personal watercraft, or PWC.
    WIRED, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • As knowledge of Greek has become more exotic—the mark of pedants, nerds, and graduates of expensive schools—capturing the barbarism of ancient Greek, and of the ancient Greeks themselves, has become harder.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • In Kansas, the state board of education commissioned a task force -- consisting of parents, educators and students -- on student screen time, which found that its schools should limit cellphone use, with some school going with a bell-to-bell ban.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Other educators who spoke to the Herald describe parents cutting back on extracurricular activities, avoiding school pick-up and drop-off lines, and even keeping children home to study informally.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.
    Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • In September 2022, schoolteacher Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped during an early morning run, and her body was later found near a vacant duplex.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Also among the speakers was Bree Watson Johnson, a schoolteacher who had driven four hours from Georgia to be at the dedication with her husband and one of their sons.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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