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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
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Hardin, 56, was in prison serving a decadeslong sentence for the 2017 murder of water department employee James Appleton in Gateway, Arkansas, and the 1997 rape of a school teacher in nearby Rogers.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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The Mount Kinabalu earthquake of 2015 claimed 18 lives, including Singaporean students and teachers who had traveled to Borneo on a school expedition.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
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These aren’t the kinds of problems a self-reliant horse-riding instructor typically has to concern herself with.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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The wet lease includes a pilot available to run the sub on demand, although those who prefer to keep their hands on the wheel can gain certification at the company’s training center in Curacao or have an instructor come to them for onboard lessons.—
J. George Gorant,
Robb Report,
6 June 2025
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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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This Jet Ski Is Not a Jet Ski 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
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It was conjured by Jacob Adler, a composer and educator from Arizona State University, stitched together from image generators, synthetic voices, and video animation tools — most notably Runway’s Gen-3, the company’s latest text-to-video model.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Jones would later admit that the shooting was real, and actually did kill 20 young children and six educators.—
Tovia Smith,
NPR,
6 June 2025
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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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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
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The Boston City Council unanimously approved a home rule petition that would hike disability pension benefits for a former city schoolteacher who was pummeled by a 16-year-old student in a 2021 attack that left her with traumatic brain damage.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
21 May 2025
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The first was to flash back to the schoolteacher with the soda.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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