academia
[ak-uh-dee-mee-uh, -deem-yuh, -dem-ee-uh, -dem-yuh]
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Origin of academia
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Examples from the Web for academia
Contemporary Examples
Better institutionalize me a second time...” and “Academia is going to have to get used to a bit of immoderate tweeting.
People of color serve at the highest levels of business, academia and politics.
It was a bit like academia, where young scholars rarely stick their necks out until they have tenure.
Like the upper bureaucracy, academia has also expanded rapidly in recent decades.
So when unprepared Christian students begin to study science and lose their faith, it feeds deep distrust of academia.
Historical Examples
Between you both, there will be quite an Academia at Kilronan.
My New CurateP.A. Sheehan
First to be noted is the "Academia," planned by Cardinal Wiseman.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomAndrew Dickson White
If the Academia fails you there is still the Kiosk in the Maximilianplatz.
The Four Corners AbroadAmy Ella Blanchard
A wall built round the Academia by Hipparchus was so expensive that it became a proverb applied to all costly undertakings.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
In the Academia itself the Bonifazio and Tintoretto rooms are crowded with imitations.
The Venetian School of PaintingEvelyn March Phillipps
academia
- the academic world
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