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academic

[ak-uh-dem-ik] / ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk /


NOUN
scholar or university/college teacher
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"A useful and enriching knowledge of Christianity and more widely the world's main religious and philosophical traditions, studied with academic rigour, will be the ambition of the new syllabus."

From BBC

Harvard has released its own reports on campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias that painted a critical picture of the school’s political and academic climate.

From The Wall Street Journal

The query requested data for the most recent academic year in which statistics were available and for all chicken products served in schools.

From BBC

A small band of brothers stayed, and within months they hatched a plan to reopen the school by the 1973 academic year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Herself a lauded novelist, Serpell examines Toni Morrison’s oeuvre with the rigor of an academic and the admiration of a fellow creative.

From Los Angeles Times