How to Use academia in a Sentence

academia

noun
Definition of academianext
  • She found the business world very different from academia.
  • Is part of the decision-making there about being in academia?
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 Apr. 2022
  • But the diminished prospects extend well beyond academia.
    — Joel Kotkin, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Recent graduates took on jobs in academia, earning about a thousand dollars a month.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The business community and academia have been taken over by data science.
    — Allison Schrager, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Most previous chemistry Nobel Prizes have gone to researchers in academia.
    — Marc Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Its aims have spread elsewhere, including to the legal sector, helped in part by its proximity to academia in the form of law school.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 3 Apr. 2022
  • For decades, the neighborhood had been the center of commerce, trade, academia and entertainment in Gaza.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2024
  • On social media, subcultures like dark academia and cottagecore thrived during the pandemic.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Lukianoff said tensions in academia grew worse in 2020, when campuses began to shut down due to the coronavirus.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, academia barely acknowledged hip-hop’s existence, focusing instead on blues, rock ‘n’ roll and folk music scholarship.
    — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Spending most of her career in academia, Brown is most known for studying shame, vulnerability and leadership.
    — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Unfortunately, this minority is not confined to academia.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 3 Apr. 2022
  • In the grip of a moral panic, secular academia increasingly resembles its religious predecessors.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 8 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Plus, Montclair State doesn’t want to put a blanket ban on AI, which will have some place in academia.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • On one side, if academia is supposed to reflect what’s going on in the real world, hip-hop should be a part of it.
    — William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 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
  • The flag removal was indicative of US academia’s response to the massacre.
    — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • By partnering with academia, these companies and services can help collect real-world data on a large scale to better inform our understanding of gynecological diseases.
    — Anna Byrne, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024

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