How to Use academia in a Sentence

academia

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  • She found the business world very different from academia.
  • This so often seems to be the way now on the left—in academia, in media.
    — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The two-plus decades drought has rippled through academia.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Mainstream academia turned its back, and the hype about cold fusion passed.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • His dad has this legendary status in the world of academia, which sounds like, who cares?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In academia he was regarded as a moral figure, a man to be heard, not shunned.
    — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands of Russians—often the best and the brightest in tech, academia, and the arts—have left the country.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2023
  • And Jay stepped away from academia to helm Gracie’s Corner full time.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The insider also sees a problem in the advanced study of crime for academia's sake.
    — Fox News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The theme of this year’s event is a foreboding term from academia: polycrisis.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Books are the epitome of dark academia, and their uses don’t just stop at reading.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Public domain The shift started with a few people in academia.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The first is stealthy, an off-the-record session with the Round Table, a group of government, academia, and industry types.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But for those who want to stick with academia, the raises may help relieve some financial stress.
    — Bykatie Langin, science.org, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Can a Jewish man write fiction about a black man passing as a Jewish man in academia?
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The need to be hands-on Keeping a foot in both academia and industry can be challenging, Suri says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Pretz says there’s a misconception that most of IEEE’s members work in academia.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That’s the position of much of American academia today.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The doctorate proved invaluable training, though not for a life in academia.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The law school, established at George Mason only in the late 1970s, had carved out a distinctive place on the right flank of legal academia.
    — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Biden plans to meet with eight experts from academia and advocacy groups.
    — Josh Boak, Fortune, 20 June 2023
  • There’s just loads and loads of such people across all kinds of fields, in government, nonprofit sector, academia, in the activist world.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • In the 50 years since, entire fields of work have been opened up to women, including academia, engineering, and medicine.
    — Melinda French Gates, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Nixon was certain that the leakers were liberals and Democrats whom Mr. Kissinger had recruited from academia.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • His fans in academia, never keen on missing a lesson of the master, at times espoused a somewhat more tepid agreement.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Nobody should doubt that there is still a lot of excellence in today’s academia and plenty of good reasons to send your kids to college.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • As Ackman widened the scope of his invective from academia to the media in the past week, lampooning and more criticism followed.
    — Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Her detractors, however, understand that defenses of this kind show the depth of the rot in academia.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And what’s the most quintessential ingredient of a uniform—at least, in academia?
    — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2023
  • No dark academia outfit is complete without an argyle sweater vest.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023

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