Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun College or university courses and studies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Platonic philosophy; Platonism.
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- noun Plural form of
academic . - noun uncountable
Academia .
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Examples
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Is it not obvious that one of the reasons that an ethnic group might do less well in academics is that they are genetically predisposed to lower âintelligenceâ level, as measured by those academics (regardless of which ethnic group youâre talking about)?
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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Prof. MASK: Orientalism is the term academics have given this age-old pattern of depicting Middle and Far Easterners as primitive others.
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Prof. MASK: Orientalism is the term academics have given this age-old pattern of depicting Middle and Far Easterners as primitive others.
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That's the term academics use to refer to the phenomenon of children returning to school after the summer at a lower academic level than when they left three months earlier.
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It's a cliche, of course; for many people the term "academics" is just naturally preceded by "stuffy."
Archive 2009-04-01 Prof. de Breeze 2009
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It's a cliche, of course; for many people the term "academics" is just naturally preceded by "stuffy."
Unstuffing Prof. de Breeze 2009
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That’s the word academics use to push their green agenda these days.
OBAMA ZOMBIES Jason Mattera 2010
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That’s the word academics use to push their green agenda these days.
OBAMA ZOMBIES Jason Mattera 2010
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If you need to be coddled (and if you do, I don't know what you're still doing in academics), this isn't the place for you.
Variety is the Spice of Life Candid Engineer 2009
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The perspective of the whiteness-studies academics is commonplace now, even if the language used to express it is different.
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