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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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The school did not mention Stephens or specify a reason for the change in its announcement.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The increasing chances of being taken, whether one is in a church, mosque, school, on a trip to the capital Abuja or resting at home, is a grim reality that should not be the case given Tinubu’s firm campaign pledges.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026

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An Antwerp academy graduate, Kegels launched her eponymous label in 2024, and made her official runway debut in Paris last September.

— Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
France’s elite talent attends sports academies such as INSEP, which prepares athletes for a professional career.

— Eden Laase, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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