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Recent Examples of academics
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
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Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for academics
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The idea was then taken up by other Scottish scholars, including James Frazer, whose widely read compendium The Golden Bough (1890) attempted to establish cross-cultural parallels in mythology.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Geoff Canada, president of Harlem Children’s Zone, has known Bessent for 30 years and said the treasury secretary has mentored one of the program’s scholars for more than a decade.—
Fatima Hussein,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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On the chopping block are six intervention teachers serving students who need intensive academic help.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The recommendations span the gamut of expanding research into hate crime data, improving security funding, addressing the display of hate symbols, expanding social media and digital literacy, and increasing educational resources for professionals teachers and students.—
Beth Bailey,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Topics of concern included the AI revolution that is transforming how students learn and forcing educators to rethink pedagogy.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The educators and innovators preparing the next generation.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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But a few years before our discovery, researchers found that the same protein [called TDP-43] is found in the spinal cords of patients with ALS and in the brains of patients with FTD.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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In 1987, Shields graduated from Princeton, proving she's got beauty and brains to spare!—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Sep. 2025
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Taught by friendly, professional instructors, the classes are designed for beginners and run step-by-step.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2026
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Meurice has trained around 150 instructors in the protocol across Australia, Canada, France, Switzerland and Malaysia.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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Both phases will require workers – mostly schoolteachers and government officials – to go door-to-door to collect information.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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Jiri Lehecka was raised by schoolteachers in a small village north of Prague in the Czech Republic, urged to focus on academics and play as many sports as possible and treat them as hobbies.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Academics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academics. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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