homeschoolers

noun

plural of homeschooler
as in readers

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  1. readers
  2. academics
  3. pedants
  4. professors
  5. doctors
  6. preachers
Noun
  • On the main floor is a room dedicated to books for both young adult and adult readers, including genres like nonfiction, fiction, romance, historical fiction, thrillers and more.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Graham’s poetry—as readers of The New York Review will know—somehow manages to reckon with the whole spectrum of human existence in the 2020s.
    — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of readers
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
Definition of academics
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
Definition of pedants
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  • It could be put on the Faculty Senate's agenda for discussion as soon as next week, several professors said in interviews.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • After more than a year of negotiations and a proposal from the CSU to increase salaries by 3%, the California Faculty Association — which represents about 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches — declared impasse in July.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of professors
Noun
  • The statement made no mention of treatment going forward, and the Vatican said doctors were not currently speaking of chemotherapy or other therapies.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Joshi and other doctors are calling for additional training to help surgeons understand how AI alters facial images, its anatomical limitations and its potential psychological effects on patients.
    — Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of doctors
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  • In the halcyon days of the televangelists, when Jim Bakker stood shoulder to shoulder with fire and brimstone preachers such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Jimmy Swaggart, the collection plate always seemed bottomless.
    — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • People of faith often embraced his work, and preachers sometimes cited it in sermons.
    — Courier Journal staff, Louisville Courier Journal, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of preachers
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