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Recent Examples of nonacademic
Yet a great number of public activities — sporting events, museum exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, celebrations and receptions, readings and nonacademic research — happen on more than 10 shady Central Texas college campuses.
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Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Many faculty and administrators of that era were still apt to view such programs as frivolous, nonacademic, or not worth the investment.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
Many nonacademic institutions also lost research grants, including the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego.
—Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2025
Perhaps nonacademic employers in those places would be smart to lure workers with family deals, just like the deans in higher ed.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Many faculty and administrators of that era were still apt to view such programs as frivolous, nonacademic, or not worth the investment.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
Many nonacademic institutions also lost research grants, including the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego.
—Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2025
Perhaps nonacademic employers in those places would be smart to lure workers with family deals, just like the deans in higher ed.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonacademic
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But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducational programming offered on the Learning Channel.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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White House officials told reporters at the time that the administration also planned to work with sports governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, to ensure the guidance is followed in noneducational settings.—
Jo Yurcaba,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Eshan volunteers at Casa several days each week, sharing his enthusiasm for biology and chemistry with Casa students, while serving as a role model through his academic dedication and extracurricular leadership, the news release stated.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The school was forced to arrange competitions with schools out of state just to make sure their extracurricular programs could continue.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Nonacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonacademic. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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