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academic

[ak-uh-dem-ik] / ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk /


NOUN
scholar or university/college teacher
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The incidence of myopia is highest in Southeast Asia—maybe not surprising given the heavy cultural emphasis on academics—where an estimated 80% of students who complete 12 years of school are myopic.

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As The Wall Street Journal has covered these tragedies, doctors and academics have been working on documenting and understanding the phenomenon that led to them.

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Vocational programs were long seen as places to silo academic underperformers into blue-collar work, administrators note.

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Moore said the district won’t have data on how the ban has affected academic performance until first-semester grades are tallied next month.

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Lawmakers, academics and regulators have documented the existence of these faulty insurance directories—often referred to as ghost networks—for years.

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