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didacts

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plural of didact

as in teachers

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Colin Gray’s sentencing represents the end of a harrowing road that began with the September 2024 shooting in which his son, then 14, fatally shot two students and two teachers and injured nine others at his Winder, Georgia, high school.

— Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Faced with an assessment task that is squishy, particularly when dealing with students who are at the beginning of their growth as writers, many teachers have fallen back on structural measures.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of teachers

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More than 50,000 students, families, educators, business leaders, and community members helped shape the vision.

— Keith Brooks, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Cummings says religious sisters have dedicated their lives to serving vulnerable people as everything from battlefield nurses to inner-city educators.

— Adora Namigadde, NPR, 23 July 2026

Definition of educators

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Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.

— Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.

— Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025

Definition of pedants

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Receiving is an easier skill to improve than say, arm strength and athleticism, catching instructors say.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Aside from firearm education and training, Valkyrie plans to offer a host of special events, courses and instructors, the pair said.

— Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 25 July 2026

Definition of instructors

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The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 May 2026
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.

— Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

Definition of academics

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Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.

— Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
At those gatherings, there will be fans like these two schoolteachers, who have saved their money for decades to watch the world’s best play all over the world.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026

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