Example Sentences

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But in terms of character building, it’s tough to beat Lorraine Warren’s signature ruffled collars, tartan prints and embroidered velvets and Ed’s quasi-academic dad look.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

Rooftopping is part of urbex, but many of its practitioners are more interested in producing social media content than in exploring marginal urban landscapes with a quasi-academic spirit.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2023

“Us” is a movie that defies the jigsaw-fit, quasi-academic interpretation that pervades recent criticism.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2019

A “Miss C” from San Mateo, California, articulates the homophile ethos well in a 1958 letter to the editor of ONE Institute Quarterly, a sort of quasi-academic journal for early gay sociology.

From Slate • May 11, 2015

A great deal of research has gone into Ziggyology, but, unlike Goddard's previous book Mozipedia: The Encylopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths, it's not presented in exhaustive, quasi-academic fashion.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013