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Definition of "academics" []

  • College or university courses and studies: "Academics are a much more important priority to him than athletics” ( Gerald McIntosh). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "academics" in a sentence
  • "Is it not obvious that one of the reasons that an ethnic group might do less well in academics is that they are genetically predisposed to lower “intelligence” level, as measured by those academics (regardless of which ethnic group you’re talking about)?"
  • "That's the term academics use to refer to the phenomenon of children returning to school after the summer at a lower academic level than when they left three months earlier."
  • "Prof. MASK: Orientalism is the term academics have given this age-old pattern of depicting Middle and Far Easterners as primitive others."
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