academia
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| —n | |
| the academic world | |
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academia
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
Such discrepancy between the morality of academia and the rest of the world seems implausible, for a start.
There is minimal collaboration between industry and academia, and an absence of industrial support for science research.
Now the careerism of academia has taken over, and the etiquette is that one has to stick to one's own little furrow.
There are several reasons that parallelism isn't making inroads to academia, besides the history of sequential programming.
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