In a sentence
Six example sentences with academia, each labelled with its topic.
After ten years in academia he left for a rural library, saying the seminar room had stopped producing real questions.
Philosophy
Studies of burnout in academia find that short contracts and constant relocation predict distress better than teaching hours do.
Psychology
Her novels are set entirely inside academia, where a disputed footnote can end a friendship of thirty years.
Literature
She left academia after her postdoc, taking a lab technique into a startup that now sells it to hospitals.
Startups
Much of the telescope's software was written outside academia, by engineers who had never published a paper.
Science
Ideas move slowly from academia to central banks, and a theory published in 1990 shaped policy only around 2010.
Economics
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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
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