Example sentences for: academia

How can you use “academia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The PAT database was initially developed as a joint development of academia and industry to serve the Arabidopsis and plant proteomics community through the provision of structure and functional assignment to all identified proteins in the Arabidopsis genome.

  • Having slipped too far into the sheltered and irrelevant world of academia, anthropologists now strive to make a difference: One anthropologist hired by a slaughterhouse helped explain meatpacker society to factory supervisors.

  • An article notes the rise of "whiteness studies" in academia.

  • The psychologist Paul Ekman (University of California at San Francisco) brought the official stamp of academia to his science of expression, documenting in the language of training-dependent effects on recognition the subtle range of expressions and microexpressions we can identify.

  • In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.


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