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academy

[uh-kad-uh-mee] / əˈkæd ə mi /


NOUN
society or institution interested in learning
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A product of Manchester City's youth academy, Harwood-Bellis joined Southampton for £20m in 2024 after impressing on loan.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

The U.S. will develop an academy to train personnel for government space jobs, along the lines of long-established institutions that do the same for the Air Force and Coast Guard.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Speaking at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Trump said the institution would be modeled on the famed US military academy at West Point.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The presidential commission focused on the space academy, led by NASA’s administrator, will also include input from high-ranking government leaders or their representatives, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the secretary of the Air Force.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

She became an assistant at the Aero Navigation Laboratory of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in Moscow, working with the academy instructor and director, Aleksandr Belyakov.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

We have also been inside academies where China is training the people who will work alongside its robotic workforce.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Kings, presidents and military academies have wrestled with versions of that question for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Premier League clubs are increasingly looking to EFL and Scottish academies for players who can be brought into their development structures, sometimes before they have established themselves in senior football.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

BBC Sport research has identified 14 players recruited from EFL or Scottish Premiership academies for Premier League development squads so far this summer.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

“It is a highly regarded school for individuals with special needs. They have academies all over the country.”

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya




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