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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
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
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
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
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
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She was also backed by the Liberty & Justice for Kentucky PAC, with a nearly $500,000 campaign contribution that included $200,000 from the Jefferson County teachers' union's PAC.—
Lucas Aulbach,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
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The actor played a suburban high school teacher named Bob Adams.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Laptops and tablets create barriers between you and the instructor.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The theater instructors asked campers to make themselves into shapes: A circle, a square, an exclamation point.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.—
Walter Scheidel,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Apr. 2022
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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
Noun
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Johnson has worked as an educator for nearly 30 years, and has been employed by District U-46 for her entire career.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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Hilton also wants to implement a letter grade system for schools and reform teacher tenure, which gives educators stronger job protections and is typically granted after two school years.—
Amelia Wu,
Sacbee.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Seventeen students from schoolteacher Justine Gandy’s third-grade class left their beds and their homes at 2:17 a.m. one night, running, arms outstretched, to a destination and a fate unknown.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Afro-Peruvian singer Susana initially worked as a schoolteacher, then began traveling across the Peruvian coastline with her husband, Ricardo Pereira, studying the culture.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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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 20 Aug. 2025.
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