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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.
—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
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
Noun
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Deputies responded to Roye-Williams Elementary School in Havre De Grace for reports of an assault between a student and two teachers, which resulted in the teachers suffering non-life-threatening injuries.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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Other educators included white teachers from the South and the North, sent by churches and aid societies.—
Rodney Coates,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Previously, Alix Earle, Jake Shane, Anastasia Karanikolaou and Stella Jones shared their own updates at sea with Alo, from fitness sessions with wellness instructors to below-deck getting ready videos.—
Joe Bobowicz,
Vogue,
18 June 2026
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Nine were experienced skydivers, and the other two were about go on tandem jumps with instructor, officials said.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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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.—
The New York Review of Books,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 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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The union will protect educators' academic freedom rights, keeping faculty expertise in teaching, research, and publication at the forefront.—
CBS Baltimore Staff,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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The latter event allowed the children of military families, first responders and educators to lace on skates for a whirl.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
14 June 2026
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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
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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.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose.—
Maysam Ghovanloo,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2026
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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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Zurich schoolteacher Jan Hesselmann, 27, was happy with the result, but concerned by the support the proposal got.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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Karen Grassle starred as Ma Ingalls, the family matriarch and a former schoolteacher.—
Kelly Martinez,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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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
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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.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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