Adjective She received awards for her academic achievements. I spent my academic career at one school. The board set tough academic standards for graduation. He was offered a teaching job and decided to return to academic life. His interest in sailing is purely academic. He's not a sailor himself. He's not very academic, but he's good with his hands. Noun The book appeals to academics and to the general public. He only cares about sports. He has no interest in academics. See More
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Without contesting the underlying power structure, reactive performances of solidarity by academic institutions risk becoming another tool of the ruling states to advance their geopolitical agendas.WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022 Traditionally, labs and academic institutions around the world and their researchers work on projects together. Paul Dabbar, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022 Electra America Hospitality Group chief executive Russ Urban in a statement said the region’s academic institutions, cultural destinations, and biotech cluster made the Loews an attractive purchase. Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022 After more than 50 years, Indiana University and Purdue University will split IUPUI – their joint venture in Indianapolis − into two separate academic institutions. Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2022 The academic and athletic standout at Lockport will continue her career at Notre Dame.USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022 Black immigrant and/or Latine students like myself often benefit from the safe spaces created by all-Black academic institutions and also usher in unique cultural tethers and nuances to the proverbial HBCU experience. Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2022 The history of competitive rowing Founded in 1867, Howard University is one of the nation’s oldest and best-known historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with a long history of graduating academic and athletic superstars. Kim O'connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022 In addition to having led academic institutions, Weiss had an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and early in his career spent four years as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.New York Times, 28 June 2022
Noun
Her focus is on recruitment and retention of Indigenous students, and coordinating and aligning academic and student services on campus. Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022 Kitchen is a strategy and entrepreneurship professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—but being an academic didn’t stop him from training like an athlete. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2022 The Tisch School of the Arts will launch an academic and production institute in honor of alumnus Martin Scorsese thanks to a gift from George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2022 Bullock plays Loretta Sage, a romance novelist and frustrated academic who has become borderline agoraphobic after the death of her husband.Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022 This hands-on program is designed to teach families how to use music to improve their child’s academic, motor, communication and social skills, as well as behavior.cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022 Born in England to Scottish parents, Mr. Robb is a former Oxford academic who forsook the seminar room for the open road. Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 24 June 2022 The hands-on session teaches families how to use music to improve the child’s academic, motor, communication and social skills as well as behavior. Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2022 Not every ruangrupan is a conventional artist; one worked as a journalist, another trained as an ecologist, a third is an academic.New York Times, 9 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French achademique, academique, borrowed from Latin Acadēmicus "of the school of Plato," borrowed from Greek Akadēmeikós, Akadēmaikós, from Akadḗmeia, a place where Plato taught + -ikos-ic entry 1 — more at academy
Noun
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French academique, borrowed from Latin Acadēmicus, noun derivative of Acadēmicus, adjective — more at academic entry 1