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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 cosmonauts plonked down on November 19th, 1965 in the Midlands market town of Rugby, a cultural backwater best known for the sport, the school, and wartime poet Rupert Brooke, in that order.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
In Indiana, emergency-response professionals helped expand Stop the Bleed training in schools, and the state’s Secured School Safety Grant program now offers funding for school bleeding-control programs and kits.

— Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

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In Rally, at a hyper-competitive elite tennis academy, ambitious young players discover that the loneliest sport in the world demands sacrificing the very connections that might be the only thing that makes winning worth it.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
This includes — but is not limited to — nurses at state hospitals and prisons, cooks employed by the California Highway Patrol academy and counselors at the California School for the Deaf.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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