ivory tower
Example Sentences
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“I use these examples to show my team that we can’t be ivory tower operators.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Often operating in ivory tower silos and echo chambers, we scientists do an incredibly poor job of explaining to the public what and why we’re studying, our methodology, and the potential advantages of our work.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
Though Dr. Mott spent her career in some of academia’s elite spaces, she was firmly committed to the idea that scholarship should be grounded and tangible, not succumbing to ivory tower abstraction.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2024
They believe civics is unnecessary and history is just an ivory tower subject for pinheaded policy wonks and bespectacled academics.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023
Occasionally he recognizes the wilful character of politics: then he shakes his head, climbs into an ivory tower and deplores the moonshine, the religious manias and the passions of the mob.
From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
