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Recent Examples of unacademic
Lymie is slight of build, shy and bookish, while Spud is athletic, outgoing and unacademic.
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New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021
All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unacademic
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Yet a great number of public activities — sporting events, museum exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, celebrations and receptions, readings and nonacademic research — happen on more than 10 shady Central Texas college campuses.—
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Many faculty and administrators of that era were still apt to view such programs as frivolous, nonacademic, or not worth the investment.—
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White House officials told reporters at the time that the administration also planned to work with sports governing bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, to ensure the guidance is followed in noneducational settings.—
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Indiana is one of the few states that allow noneducational governmental agencies, such as the Indianapolis mayor’s office, to authorize charter schools.—
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In Cherkashin, Nash Sovremennik presented a model genealogy as well as a model Pushkin scholar: a righteous, passionate, nonintellectual man of the people.—
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Such thumbnail indictments of the nonintellectual masses seemed to stem from Hofstadter’s own mounting sense of political and cultural homelessness in the postwar world.—
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Admissions officers assess your extracurricular record with an eye to initiative and authenticity.—
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Vazquez said she was impressed by how detailed the handbook is, promising a safe educational environment and opportunities for athletics and extracurricular activities.—
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Joe is willfully ignorant—to national news and a lethal pandemic—but Aster didn’t write the character as a one-dimensional MAGA standee.—
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Yet Americans are surprisingly ignorant about our past.—
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My ideas around him were vague and uninformed, mostly of the stiff host tolerating the younger acts.—
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However, the swift approval process left many residents feeling uninformed and concerned about the potential impact on low-scale neighborhoods.—
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
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And lo, the high-low concept was born: a club that would give its members permission to dip into deeply lowbrow territory, and then count upon the next choice to hoist us out of the muck.—
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From books to movies to, yes, even podcasts, the hosts recommend both high- and lowbrow choices.—
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“Unacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacademic. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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