How to Use academe in a Sentence

academe

noun
  • Many will leave the halls of academe without a degree and without a future.
    — William L. Rukeyser, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • In response, Gladwell, as per his custom, borrows ideas from academe.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The eggheads of academe dissect the president’s efforts to make an enemy of the press.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 18 Apr. 2017
  • In academe, this idea of the need to have instructors of the same race and with the same values as students in the classroom is not new.
    — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Demirors straddles the world of entrepreneurship, academe and journalism.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2017
  • But in the academe there are standards, and plagiarism is considered breaking those standards.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 10 Aug. 2017
  • And in the academe, there is a growing demand for nuclear science education.
    — Lorela U. Sandoval, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
  • The result has been a huge number of complaints throughout academe and a concomitant growth of bureaucracy.
    — William Stadiem, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2016
  • Pragmatism begins on the streets and exchanges, and is later articulated in the halls of academe.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Nor is the Dunning School itself anomalous in the history of American academe.
    — Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
  • After all, academe in affluent societies has tended to become a playpen for socialists and social engineers.
    — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Although academe may dismiss the Galileo Project as nothing more than pandering to a gullible public, such prejudice is unhelpful and myopic.
    — Seth Shostak, Scientific American, 29 July 2021
  • Colleges provide a distinctive sense of place, of course, and while Washington may not be the quintessential college town, the groves of academe still extend their tendrils here and there.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 June 2017
  • But no one is more intolerant than the modern left-wing secular crusader, whose views on these cultural issues further enjoy the backing of the media, big business, academe and so on.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • 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, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Breaking into academe as a woman in the 1950s had not been easy, but her work on the impact of the printing press, published in her sixth decade, proved to be another senior-division win.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The downshouters will go on behaving deplorably, and reminding the rest of us that the true harbinger of an authoritarian future lives not in the White House but in the groves of academe.
    — Stephen Carter, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2017
  • The halls of academe are known to be hospitable to people with radical views on power relationships between capital and labor, but colleges themselves are often merciless actors in the labor market.
    — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Apparently, its corporate focus on secrecy has been an impediment in recruiting talent (some of whom come from academe and discern publishing as essential).
    — The Hive, 25 July 2017
  • 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, 4 Aug. 2019
  • But much of the research says conservative students and faculty members are not only surviving but thriving in academe—free of indoctrination if not the periodic frustrations.
    — Graham Vyse, New Republic, 13 July 2017
  • Unless academe provides more encouragement and professional incentives for such efforts, the critical dialogues and community exchanges the public is asking for will not happen on the scale that is required.
    — Guest, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2017
  • 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, 27 June 2018
  • Among the most promising starting points for such a transformation are Joe Berry’s and Raewyn Connell’s observations about the overlap between the struggles of academe and those of the larger service sector economy.
    — Charles Petersen, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • In his satirical images, Orozco targeted US public education and conformity, academe’s ivory tower, a corrupting military, and the mortal sacrifices of nationalistic war.
    — Steve Burkholder, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019

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