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academia

[ak-uh-dee-mee-uh, -deem-yuh, -dem-ee-uh, -dem-yuh] / ˌæk əˈdi mi ə, -ˈdim jə, -ˈdɛm i ə, -ˈdɛm jə /


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It’s tempting to write all this off as another sorry example of academia gone off the rails.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Aimee, 31, was on a steady path to a career in academia when she had her "road to Damascus" moment.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Catholicism, with its social teachings, offered him a bridge between the flawed individualism of his youth and the cold systems-analysis of liberal academia.

From Slate Jun. 18, 2026

Federal judges forgo lucrative law-firm partnerships or tenured chairs in academia for long days and a federal pay scale.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

The willingness of the two universities to share Robert Oppenheimer attested to the scarcity of qualified theoretical physicists in American academia, especially theoreticians of Oppenheimer’s distinction.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik



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