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academic

[ak-uh-dem-ik] / ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk /


NOUN
scholar or university/college teacher
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"By offering two doses of the jabs ahead of the academic year, we will help reduce the risk of serious illness and larger outbreaks of this horrendous disease."

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Other studies of students have concluded that reliance on LLMs is associated with procrastination, memory loss and diminished academic performance.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

There, he discovered that trans history in Colombia, arguably more than in the U.S., lives inside of people’s homes, raw in their stories — not just sitting neatly in an academic archive.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

That is exactly what another academic study found upon measuring the stock market’s performance during World Cups between 1950 and 2007: The U.S. stock market produced an average loss of 2.6% during those tournaments.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

The book to which I refer is Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, by a Canadian academic named Stephen Herrero.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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