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academic

[ak-uh-dem-ik] / ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk /


NOUN
scholar or university/college teacher
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Concerned about what they saw, his medical team sent him immediately to an academic medical center two hours away for treatment.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

Published academic research has shown his claims are not supported by facts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The veteran academic of London's politics, Tony Travers, a politics professor at the London School of Economics, says the capital may be about to witness a "political earthquake".

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Rainbow Corner said despite the notice period running until the end of the next academic year, it needed to find a new home by autumn so the EA could approve it as a suitable venue.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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