How to Use academia in a Sentence

academia

noun
Definition of academianext
  • She found the business world very different from academia.
  • First, industry can react much faster than academia can.
    — Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • These protests, organized by French students, quickly spread beyond academia.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2022
  • Yet step by step, Democrats have turned student loans into an entitlement for academia and the affluent.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
  • TikTok aesthetics from cottagecore to dark academia have taken TikTok by storm.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 4 May 2022
  • Twitter users in academia, in niche fields, those with quirky interests, subcultures small and big, grassroots activists, researchers and a host of others flock to the platform.
    — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2022
  • No one in legal academia today thinks unenumerated rights are protected by substantive due process, which is an oxymoron anyway.
    — WSJ, 8 May 2022
  • Comartin also worked in academia, teaching law classes at the University of Windsor.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2022
  • Dohrn and Ayers moved to Chicago, embarking on a conventional life in academia and raising Chesa with their own two children.
    — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • One of the following themes likely has brought you more joy: travel, culture, academia, spirituality, media, publishing, or legal contracts.
    — Kyle Thomas, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
  • This so often seems to be the way now on the left—in academia, in media.
    — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The two-plus decades drought has rippled through academia.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Mainstream academia turned its back, and the hype about cold fusion passed.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • His dad has this legendary status in the world of academia, which sounds like, who cares?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In academia he was regarded as a moral figure, a man to be heard, not shunned.
    — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands of Russians—often the best and the brightest in tech, academia, and the arts—have left the country.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Plus, Montclair State doesn’t want to put a blanket ban on AI, which will have some place in academia.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
  • And Jay stepped away from academia to helm Gracie’s Corner full time.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The insider also sees a problem in the advanced study of crime for academia's sake.
    — Fox News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The theme of this year’s event is a foreboding term from academia: polycrisis.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Books are the epitome of dark academia, and their uses don’t just stop at reading.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Public domain The shift started with a few people in academia.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • On one side, if academia is supposed to reflect what’s going on in the real world, hip-hop should be a part of it.
    — William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The first is stealthy, an off-the-record session with the Round Table, a group of government, academia, and industry types.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The flag removal was indicative of US academia’s response to the massacre.
    — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • But for those who want to stick with academia, the raises may help relieve some financial stress.
    — Bykatie Langin, science.org, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Can a Jewish man write fiction about a black man passing as a Jewish man in academia?
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The need to be hands-on Keeping a foot in both academia and industry can be challenging, Suri says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If done properly, AI can be a powerful tool that benefits every aspect of our lives from health care to security to academia and more.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Brainstorming on how innovators look for the big things to solve, the group spoke about the process of funding, and how projects get done, how a state develops into a regional economy, and how academia works with business.
    — John Werner, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

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