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Recent Examples of unacademic
Lymie is slight of build, shy and bookish, while Spud is athletic, outgoing and unacademic.
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New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 May 2020
New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unacademic
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Yet a great number of public activities — sporting events, museum exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, celebrations and receptions, readings and nonacademic research — happen on more than 10 shady Central Texas college campuses.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Many faculty and administrators of that era were still apt to view such programs as frivolous, nonacademic, or not worth the investment.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 June 2025
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White House officials told reporters at the time that the administration also planned to work with sports governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, to ensure the guidance is followed in noneducational settings.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Indiana is one of the few states that allow noneducational governmental agencies, such as the Indianapolis mayor’s office, to authorize charter schools.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
4 May 2023
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In Cherkashin, Nash Sovremennik presented a model genealogy as well as a model Pushkin scholar: a righteous, passionate, nonintellectual man of the people.—
Kathleen Parthé,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Aug. 2022
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Such thumbnail indictments of the nonintellectual masses seemed to stem from Hofstadter’s own mounting sense of political and cultural homelessness in the postwar world.—
Chris Lehmann,
The New Republic,
16 Apr. 2020
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For years, students and parents have focused on grades, test scores, and extracurricular activities as the main pillars of a strong college application.—
Gerald Bradshaw,
Chicago Tribune,
17 July 2025
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In addition to playing on her high school badminton team, Ava’s extracurricular activities have included an Alzheimer’s fundraising club at Canyon Crest Academy and founding a student chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association of San Diego.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 July 2025
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Residents are far from ignorant of Michigan’s law on train blockages.—
Ayah Imran,
Freep.com,
18 July 2025
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With the current events unfolding in the U.S. (as well as the ongoing struggle for People of Color), Hightower didn’t want to be ignorant of what was happening in their country.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The Big Beautiful Bill is supposed to revitalize our economy, but the president who asked for it is destroying that economy with his erratic, uninformed and ill-judged dictatorial outbursts.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
13 July 2025
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Rogers led McMorrow on a uninformed ballot by about 4 percentage points (48 percent to 44 percent), but when voters were told more information about each candidate, McMorrow led by 4 points (51 percent to 47 percent).—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
Carmen Abd Ali,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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From books to movies to, yes, even podcasts, the hosts recommend both high- and lowbrow choices.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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While no single moment led to Housewives breaking away from lowbrow connotations to widespread acclaim, everyone can agree that RHOA played a crucial part in the evolution.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Unacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacademic. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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