How to Use academic year in a Sentence

academic year

noun
  • That will all come to an end at the close of this academic year.
    — David Lyman, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Schools have been canceled for the rest of the academic year.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Things have gone better this academic year.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2026
  • The change will go into effect on the first day of school this academic year.
    — Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2025
  • The attack on the school comes just two weeks into the start of the new academic year.
    — Francis Ajumane and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Schools were shut down as well for the remainder of the academic year to slow the spread of the virus.
    — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 14 May 2020
  • Figures for this academic year have not yet been released.
    — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The student is expected to be out of school for more than one full academic year.
    — Smithsonian, 17 Feb. 2017
  • This is how the data compares to this point compared to the last two academic years.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Nov. 2025
  • But their opposition to the war didn’t end with the academic year.
    — Charles Blow, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The war has caused all the students in Gaza to lose an entire academic year from their lives.
    — Ikram Talaat Ahmed, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The start of a new academic year meant making changes, and fast, to students' routines.
    — USA Today, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Schools, however, will remain closed through the end of the academic year.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The rollbacks take effect this academic year.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Gu has taken the current academic year off to focus on the Olympics.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The city plans to launch it near the end of the academic year for students in elementary through high school.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The strong quake struck as public schools started the new academic year on Monday.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
  • The start of the academic year is often a peak time for many student counseling centers.
    — Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • August denotes the end of summer vacation and the start of a new academic year.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The school board trustee added that the goal is to have this policy in effect beginning the next academic year.
    — Sooji Nam, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Loans are also tied to the academic year, so families can’t try to borrow now to get ahead of the rate increase.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • All the briefs are in, and the new academic year for universities nears, which means the time is right for a decision.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 May 2025
  • Although schools are open with substitutes, the strike has consumed about 6% of the academic year.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In just one more academic year, the satellite campus in Fayette County will close.
    — Christopher Derose, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • The results of the vote means students are free to transfer to and from the school in the coming academic year to better suit their needs.
    — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The academic year for the Ducks and Beavers doesn’t end until the second week of June.
    — oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Indiana is the 11th state to close schools for the remainder of the academic year.
    — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Odgers and Lear are middle- and high-school teachers who took the academic year off to embark on their adventure.
    — Outside, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Depending on a school's situation, this may lead to more days being added at the end of the academic year.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The team did log the flyers as a hate and bias incident, which will appear in a public report at the end of the academic year.
    — Cristian Martinez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023

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