ivory tower
Example Sentences
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It’s usually wrong to stand in your ivory tower shouting out the window that a broad swath of people in the market are mistaken.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
“I use these examples to show my team that we can’t be ivory tower operators.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Often operating in ivory tower silos and echo chambers, we scientists do an incredibly poor job of explaining to the public what and why we’re studying, our methodology, and the potential advantages of our work.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
Whenever an academic term breaks out of the ivory tower, it is going to lose some meaning and that’s true here.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2024
And there they rested, like betrothed children in a tower of purity; an impregnable ivory tower, where all their love was yet perfect innocence.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
