ivory tower
Example Sentences
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“I use these examples to show my team that we can’t be ivory tower operators.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
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
Is “Homework” about a child who took a remarkably frictionless path, aided by a nation that had invested in civic institutions, from monetary hardship to the ivory tower?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Though Dr. Mott spent her career in some of academia’s elite spaces, she was firmly committed to the idea that scholarship should be grounded and tangible, not succumbing to ivory tower abstraction.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
She could never now, with a tranquil heart, go into the ivory tower.
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
