How to Use academic in a Sentence

academic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • He's not very academic, but he's good with his hands.
  • I spent my academic career at one school.
  • He was offered a teaching job and decided to return to academic life.
  • She received awards for her academic achievements.
  • The board set tough academic standards for graduation.
  • His interest in sailing is purely academic. He's not a sailor himself.
  • The Wellfleet meetings became a mixture of the academic and non-academic in the usual sense of that word.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The same should be true of academic research and research for human welfare.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • Things like divorce, a death in the family, and academic struggles may bring ODD to the surface, say doctors.
    — Gia Miller, Parents, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic.
    — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Cutting back on her social and academic life didn't seem to make a difference, though.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Grundy said the funds that flowed into the center could have been put toward academic scholarships.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Intrigued, Pan applied to work there and was assigned to help with research on a book about academic health centers.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Manet’s refusal to play along with the strictures of academic art matches his refusal to cater to France’s bourgeois fantasies.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Its prose is not academic but brimming with vivid images.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Over the past few years, the kids — from sixth to eighth grade — have been through a lot — the pandemic didn’t just interrupt their academic learning but their dance training as well.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Kelly said he was drawn to St. Thomas for its Catholic mission and academic excellence.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Mines is one of the top academic universities in the nation, ranking No. 38 among public schools.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • The greatest damage that Ackman’s tweets have done may be to the debate over academic plagiarism.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Ahead of the academic milestone, Alana attended her senior prom with her 21-year-old boyfriend, Dralin Carswell.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
  • Even amid the turmoil, the sunny red brick campus pulses with energy and academic feats.
    — Jack Healy, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Some in the cosmopolitan crew were pointed to Knecht’s project because their academic studies overlap with his work.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • It is made of publicly available data from the web, books, academic journals and computer code.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The latest survey of business and academic economists by the Wall Street Journal had some promising news.
    — Jaime Catmull, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • What was important to you to be able to convey to a theater audience versus an academic one?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • And students aren’t allowed to list GPTs designed for academic cheating.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Heck, even the academic decathlon teams playing for Paul Bunyan’s Pencil.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2023
  • Sarah Dalton sent her dyslexic 12-year-old son to a strict school with excellent academic results.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The survey illustrates the extent to which the pandemic's unraveling of academic life still weighs heavily on the nation's public school teachers.
    — S. Dev, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Stratford offers various academic, specialty, day and sports camps to keep kids engaged all summer long.
    — Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
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academic

2 of 2 noun
  • The book appeals to academics and to the general public.
  • He only cares about sports. He has no interest in academics.
  • They can be taken off the field and applied to academics and the arts.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 18 July 2023
  • Artists and academics say focusing on the crime is missing the point.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There are still good coaches and good academics in the City Section too.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In her journey as an author and academic, Drew Gilpin Faust has risen to the very top.
    — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Experts share how the original three look like in the context of academics.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Cal was ranked the No. 1 public university in the world for its academics.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Gavin is a leader in academics, visual arts, football, and faith.
    — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But the transfers to a dozen or so schools between kindergarten and fifth grade made academics difficult.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The water-food-energy nexus has long been a topic for academics.
    — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Epstein was known to socialize with the rich, the famous and the powerful, as well as elite academics and celebrities.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Their work inspired academics around the world to delve deeper into what’s known as game theory.
    — Kate Vitasek, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • By 1974, Kissinger, the brilliant, all-but-anonymous Harvard academic, was hot stuff.
    — Ted Koppel, CBS News, 7 May 2023
  • Many of them never had to work hard in the classroom, either, because frankly, academics was rarely the top priority.
    — Greg Harden, Men's Health, 15 Aug. 2023
  • On the audio show, Van Ness explores a wide range of topics with academics, activists and other experts.
    — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 May 2023
  • Thirteen-hour days spent mostly on academics and test prep that end at 10 p.m. are not uncommon.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • This, of course, was back when the wrath of a national coalition of Black politicians, lobbyists, activists and academics was still fresh on his mind.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Politicians have come to regard courts less as a check on power than a part of the state’s governing coalition, academics and activists say.
    — USA Today, 24 July 2023
  • The way language models seem to reflect human behavior has also caught the eye of some academics.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
  • For years now, heads of state and government, academics and development experts have been calling on the World Bank to lead in the fight against climate change.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Users could now pay $8 a month and get the same blue checkmark that was once reserved for notable people such as celebrities, journalists, and academics.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Though Ngram is not perfect, many linguists and other academics use the tool for research gathering.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
  • That means something coming from Rice, a lifelong academic who boasts a mile-long CV of accolades.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • Yet this idea has been touted by business leaders, academics and laypersons.
    — Eric Waller, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The country’s academics, artists, business leaders, and even military reservists have come out against the overhaul.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • While Lyu and other academics have called for investments in these counter-technologies for years, Congress dithered.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The film deals with this a lot, the idea that these academics, these theorists could come together and build something with their own hands of this magnitude, of this importance.
    — WIRED, 20 June 2023
  • The academic told the young man from Wisconsin that visitors from Washington were coming to the campus.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But there are also entrepreneurs and academics advocating for ideas that could improve the status quo.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023

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