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 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
  • My writing teacher, who is a poet from Argentina, and Elisa Medde wrote for my book.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 20 June 2025
  • An amateur concert pianist and part-time high school social-studies teacher, the center-right politician was the longest-serving Dutch Prime Minister in history.
    Adam Rasmi, Time, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The stern instructor displays a remarkable amount of patience as the student bashes the unfortunate victim against every solid surface in sight — even alien beings capable of traversing the cosmos can have bad days at the office.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 20 June 2025
  • Ahmed Mahmoud, a clinical instructor at Boston University, previously told USA TODAY that researchers believe marijuana may make small defects in the coronary arteries' lining, the thin layer of cells that forms the inner surface of blood vessels and hollow organs.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.
    Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • Two years ago, Santiago Charter administrators Ashley Pedroza and Lauren Salloum attended a dual enrollment professional development program for high school educators.
    Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 19 June 2025
  • The San Dieguito Union High School District board approved a settlement agreement with the San Dieguito Faculty Association on June 11 in a show of support for educators.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 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
  • Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography: ¨ JASPER GUNN!
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
  • Literature is an easy place to make a home, and my schoolteachers and librarians invited me out of Oz and onto the American prairie, the English drawing room, and to poetry.
    Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • 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 4 Jul. 2025.

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