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academe

noun

ˈa-kə-ˌdēm

Definition of academe

as in school

a place or establishment for teaching and learning the cloistered and privileged world inhabited by the students in that suburban academe

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Recent Examples of academe Woke doesn't just characterize academe, academe is from where almost every trope of woke originally came. — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 26 Jan. 2026 Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe. — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe. — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024 But her decision to mix it up beyond the halls of academe has also landed her in the middle of a nasty social media drama and a Hollywood dispute. — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for academe

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While Usher was off basking in the afterglow of Confessions, maturing into a divorcé in the mid-2000s, the R&B world was already priming itself for a new-school successor.

— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
Many voters thank him for pulling Serbia from economic obscurity and orchestrating a period of sustained modernisation including new highways, railways, schools and hospitals.

— Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026

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Today, there are more than 5,000 children participating in iACT soccer academies in Chad, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Mexico.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
So, the investment also includes a new manufacturing training academy at Joliet Junior College, expanding industrial maintenance training and doubling welding capacity.

— Megan De Mar, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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