ivory tower
Example Sentences
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It’s usually wrong to stand in your ivory tower shouting out the window that a broad swath of people in the market are mistaken.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
“I use these examples to show my team that we can’t be ivory tower operators.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
They’re not coming down from the ivory tower like the doctors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
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
Was it possible that even in her safe ivory tower of aloofness from life, she had felt the jarring blow of the brutally immediate tragedy of the Eagle Rocks?
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
