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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.
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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.
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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.
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Justin T. Clark,
BostonGlobe.com,
14 Apr. 2018
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
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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The decision comes after several parents and teachers expressed concern about AI.
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The classroom reflects the Academy’s inclusive model for students, teachers, and families, and also lays the foundation for continued collaboration between Roborock and Miami Lighthouse.
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Nejat’s inspection was conducted by an instructor and Delta video producer named Matthew Miller.
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The elder Moniak, now 86, played six seasons in the Red Sox farm system from 1958-63, and like Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, was among the young outfielders who benefited from the tutelage of a special batting instructor named Ted Williams at spring training ‘61-63.
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The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
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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.
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Years later, longtime educator Beverly Williams called, offering her a position in Pulaski County -- the same area where Atkins-Butcher had lived in the 1980s and where her parents had recently returned.
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These moments have shaped Pryor’s thinking about teaching and educators’ responsibilities.
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The framing story follows Toño, a struggling writer, would-be academician and lifelong devotee of traditional Peruvian creole music.
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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.
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And in the academe, there is a growing demand for nuclear science education.
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Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose.
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Meanwhile, Krakow portrays protagonist Elizabeth Thatcher, who leaves behind her privileged life to become a schoolteacher on the western frontier in a coal mining town in 1900s Canada.
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Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.
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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.
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Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.
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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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