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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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In July 2024, the board eliminated an automatic right of students found responsible for nonacademic misconduct to appeal their verdict.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The books of Michael Clune, or at least the ones written for a nonacademic audience, have focussed on very particular chapters of his life.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they were also marred by ignorant, homophobic heckling.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
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And using both words does not reveal that a person is ignorant but rather cosmopolitan.—
Kirk Bowman,
The Conversation,
4 June 2026
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But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducational programming offered on the Learning Channel.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 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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That's the endless complaint from a number of uninformed fans, outside observers, certain media members and opposing owners happy to push for a salary cap to guarantee themselves more profits.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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And there were a lot of misinformed, uninformed voters.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
24 May 2026
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Abby Sanders, Gallatin High Teaches English I and English II in a manner to help all students in the classroom, their extracurricular activities and in life after school.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2025
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Yes, sports have divas, beefs, drama, extracurricular social-media warfare, and lore worthy of a Real Housewives reunion, but all that is additive to the foundational experience, the competition itself.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2025
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Stolen bases, once treated as a reckless relic of the uneducated past, are at levels not seen since the freewheeling 1980s.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Regrettably, their students are chronically uneducated.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Two decades later, Shuter is using his Substack, Naughty but Nice, to capitalize on the eternal appetite for the sort of outrageously lowbrow material once only found in the pages of gossip rags like the Enquirer.—
Dan Adler,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
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Pro wrestling is still considered a lowbrow entertainment—meathead Kabuki, not a night at the opera.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
6 Apr. 2026
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To stay in that state of unthinking presence was like walking a tightrope only to suddenly look down, panic, and come plunging back to Earth.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Old age involves our passage from an unthinking resourcefulness…to a speculative space where nothing can be taken for granted.—
Via David R. Godine,
Literary Hub,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Unacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacademic. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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