didacts

plural of didact

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Noun
  • Protests are expected around the stadium throughout the day, including demonstrations by the teachers’ union and groups representing the families of missing persons.
    Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic Pikes Peak During the summer of 1893, poet and literature professor Katharine Lee Bates joined other teachers working in Colorado Springs for the summer and took a ride to the top of Pikes Peak.
    Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • The states argued that the policy impedes their ability to hire primary and secondary school educators and to staff public colleges and universities, will stymie academic research and will lead to a decline in medical workers.
    Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • Within a decade, more than a third of social-studies educators were coaching sports or teaching phys ed.
    Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Unions representing graduate workers, adjuncts and non-tenure-track instructors have organized in recent years at several campuses, including New York University, Columbia and Harvard.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • Those scenes' lighthearted whimsy, featuring late-night hijinks with classmates pranking grumpy instructors, pays off in the story's earliest tragedies.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Public schoolteachers are also holding separate talks regarding salary improvements.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • The Kremlin also released footage Monday of Putin driving to personally pick up one of his old schoolteachers, Vera Gurevich, from a hotel lobby with a bouquet of flowers and an enthusiastic embrace before taking her for dinner at the Kremlin.
    Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
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“Didacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didacts. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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