academe
noun
ac·a·deme
| \ ˈa-kə-ˌdēm
, ˌa-kə-ˈ\
, ˌa-kə-ˈ\
Definition of academe
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Examples of academe in a Sentence
the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe
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Many will leave the halls of academe without a degree and without a future. — William L. Rukeyser, The Mercury News, "Opinion: Here’s how NCAA college sports could be deregulated," 4 Aug. 2019 History tells us that the Western left, media and academe were employed by Russian propagandists and referred to as Vladimir Lenin's useful idiots. — Dallas News, "Letters - Misled or forewarned? Readers give their take on the Mueller hearing," 4 Aug. 2019 Impact factors—which represent the number of citations to a journal's articles divided by the number of articles published during a 2-year period—are widely used in academe as a yardstick of a journal’s prestige and reach. — Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, "Firm that tallies controversial journal impact scores moves to provide more context," 27 June 2018 The result has been a huge number of complaints throughout academe and a concomitant growth of bureaucracy. — William Stadiem, Town & Country, "Can Harvard's Storied Final Clubs Resist the Tides of Change?," 2 Aug. 2016 In addition, as colleagues later noted, his illness might even be seen to have expedited his work, freeing him from the standard bureaucratic chores of academe and mundane domestic tasks. — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, "Stephen Hawking, ground-breaking physicist, dead at 76," 14 Mar. 2018 But the move does mark a perilous entry into academe, something that Mr. Zorn had long resisted — and something that, more often than not, musicians of his cohort haven’t had the opportunity to resist. — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, "John Zorn’s Club the Stone Begins a New Life on the Other Side of Town," 27 Feb. 2018 Demirors straddles the world of entrepreneurship, academe and journalism. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, "19 Bitcoin Accounts You Should Follow on Twitter," 27 Dec. 2017 The most graceful of the three buildings so far is the Bridge, designed by the New York architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi to lubricate the campus’s frank closeness between academe and commerce. — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, "The Views (Real and Virtual) From Cornell Tech," 13 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'academe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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