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academia

[ak-uh-dee-mee-uh, -deem-yuh, -dem-ee-uh, -dem-yuh] / ˌæk əˈdi mi ə, -ˈdim jə, -ˈdɛm i ə, -ˈdɛm jə /


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After the IMF, Gourinchas will be headed back to a career in academia at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Cammock said her work was grounded in academia and "asks us to think about who is honoured and valorised and who is not; whose stories are told and whose are not".

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

And bankruptcy law teaches an important lesson for how academia can respond to this moment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Catholicism, with its social teachings, offered him a bridge between the flawed individualism of his youth and the cold systems-analysis of liberal academia.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

The new paradigm of collaborative research pursued in the ramshackle Rad Lab surprised visitors bred in the insular working style still prevalent in academia.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik



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