How to Use academia in a Sentence

academia

noun
  • She found the business world very different from academia.
  • So much of academia is scared of it.
    — Jon Stojan, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • This is not just a challenge for academia.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And not all are focused on academia.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This hypocrisy stems from a shift in how academia is perceived.
    — Jj Jasser, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
  • Dark academia decor can be brought to life with simple decor swaps.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But many in academia worried that protests would strike up again in the fall.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • The answer, of course, isn’t yes or no, as with most things in academia.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Fifty years of anything is an achievement in academia.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Some of the top leaders in academia are ringing the alarm bells.
    — Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Take a dark academia approach to your home decor this fall season.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
  • All that time in academia may have been fodder for his latest book.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2021
  • The world of commerce and academia truly would have ground to a halt.
    — Gopi Sirineni, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Some find jobs in academia, think tanks, or the nonprofit world.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
  • In the months before the coup, his target had been the world of academia.
    — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Mainstream academia turned its back, and the hype about cold fusion passed.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This so often seems to be the way now on the left—in academia, in media.
    — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • His dad has this legendary status in the world of academia, which sounds like, who cares?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This story is a cross between dark academia and dark romance.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 26 Jan. 2026
  • How can any of us win against that, especially in academia?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • What did working in industry teach you that academia couldn’t?
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Industry has a bias for action; academia has a bias for rigor.
    — Shannon McKeen, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • What is less clear is whether academia is preparing graduates enough to meet that bar.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • So much of Dylan scholarship is from academia, and that’s fine.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Is part of the decision-making there about being in academia?
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Books are the epitome of dark academia, and their uses don’t just stop at reading.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Parker has for years operated on the fringes of academia.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But for those who want to stick with academia, the raises may help relieve some financial stress.
    — Bykatie Langin, science.org, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Much of the play lightly mocks academia, and how writers present themselves and see themselves.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 Apr. 2021

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