academic
adjective
of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution.
academics
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pluralof academic.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to students who will arrive quoting it chapter and verse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Two Chinese academics have won the world's top prize for mathematics for the first time, according to state media.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
China’s central economic planning agency brought in several academics and chip experts to help run the project, an unusual move for top government bodies which usually keep decision-making in-house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
I didn’t expect or want a volleyball scholarship, I simply wanted to prove to colleges that I was well rounded and could handle sports and academics year-round.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
