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Recent Examples of academics
The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.
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New Atlas,
29 May 2026
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
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Ilya Shapiro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
New Atlas,
29 May 2026
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
—
Ilya Shapiro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for academics
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Supporters of the change counter that the governor — who has to answer to a broad base of interests — would be less susceptible to education special interest groups, including teachers unions.
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Students submit their test scores, transcripts, a personal essay, two letters of recommendation from teachers and sit for an interview.
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The manuscript, a treatise of Epicurean philosophy also likely written by Philodemus, was entirely unknown to scholars before the Challenge.
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Electronic dance music scholars have noted that countercultural scenes have shifted into a global industry, reshaping or erasing local meanings in favor of commercialization.
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These moments have shaped Pryor’s thinking about teaching and educators’ responsibilities.
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Nearly 200 educators attend to share best practices in leadership and teaching.
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For a quick refresher, Pavlov found that if dogs were repeatedly given food while a bell rang, the dogs eventually began salivating at the mere sound of the bell because their brains associated the sound with food.
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Even though the levels of omega-3 had risen in the brains of the people who took the supplement, there were no improvements in cognition or in the size of the hippocampus—the brain's memory center.
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Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
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In that case, the city issued 22 subpoenas to financial and social media companies seeking information regarding the two instructors and their associates, according to court documents.
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Jones agrees that patience is key in working with kids with disabilities, something that's emphasized in the training for instructors.
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Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.
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At those gatherings, there will be fans like these two schoolteachers, who have saved their money for decades to watch the world’s best play all over the world.
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“Academics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academics. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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