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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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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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Perhaps nonacademic employers in those places would be smart to lure workers with family deals, just like the deans in higher ed.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2024
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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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Leadership roles and extracurricular activities have prepared Poway High School Salutatorian Michael Markoff to tackle the challenges of studying medicine at UCLA this fall.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
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In Crosby-Ironton, voters may be asked to pay an additional $1.5 million per year or risk a four-day school week and the end of many extracurricular activities, according to the Star Tribune.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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The former Fox host Tucker Carlson, who opposed such an operation, sparred with two boosters: the current Fox host Mark Levin, and the Republican senator Ted Cruz, whom Carlson revealed to be ignorant of basic facts about Iran in a clip that went viral.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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Maybe LLMs get us 80% of the way there without any oversight, but skipping the context and being completely ignorant of what the machine is doing is typically not a good idea, partly for the reasons that the panelists laid out.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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The opposing camp would argue that these adjustments to GAAP numbers are opportunistic, and the policy maker must protect the uninformed investors from such opportunism.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Actions that were meant to seem aggressive have instead come off as uninformed and unsustainable.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 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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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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There are few modern actors as purely watchable as Walton Goggins, a performer who is capable of both relishing in lowbrow material and elevating it with effortless charm.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Unacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacademic. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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