academe

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For generations, consensus achieved in the remotest groves of academe has trickled down to public consciousness through curricula, textbooks, trade publishing, museum exhibits, and other highly curated channels.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2021

Although academe may dismiss the Galileo Project as nothing more than pandering to a gullible public, such prejudice is unhelpful and myopic.

From Scientific American • Jul. 29, 2021

With its indeterminate instrumentation and its tinge of academe, few pianists have taken it up with ease or regularity — and fewer still of Mr. Trifonov’s imagination.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2020

“We set out with the idea that while we were going to make academe our beat, we were going to be primarily a journalistic newspaper,” Crowl told the Associated Press in 1984.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2019

“Have all the halls of academe crumbled, Guitar?”

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison