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academic

[ak-uh-dem-ik] / ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk /


NOUN
scholar or university/college teacher
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For the 2025-2026 academic year, new enrollments of international students in the U.S. declined by 17%.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

If Mr. Sewell is less insightful on Dulles’s political activities than his philosophy, that is perhaps as much a failure of the academic discipline as the individual scholar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

On days when students were sharper than usual, they completed more of their goals and often aimed higher, especially with academic work.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Velasco, who is 38 but looks even younger, replaced Juan Ramón de la Fuente, 74, a veteran diplomat and academic who stepped down, he said, for health reasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

At some point, she was put on academic probation, but even that didn’t seem to bother her much.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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