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academy

[uh-kad-uh-mee] / əˈkæd ə mi /


NOUN
society or institution interested in learning
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He reflected on the promise he had made at the military academy, almost a decade earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stupnikov, a recent graduate from a prestigious military academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, had a secret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Segev met Tamar Bar-Ilan and Yonatan Itai in 2010 when they started their Israel Defense Forces service and joined its Talpiot program, a secretive and selective tech leadership academy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

One of the phrases used is 'the first team pitch is only 300 metres away from the academy building in Kirkby, but the journey might take 10 years to get there'.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A ninth-grade academy in a separate building, which had been successful in acclimating students to high school, was to be shut down.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

After playing for youth academies such as Arsenal, West Ham United and Chelsea, Gabriel signed with Manchester United at age 11.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

He also coached in the academies of USG and Genk.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

They rarely attended training academies or steeped themselves in the emerging scientific methods of detection, such as the analysis of fingerprints and blood patterns.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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