academia - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • enter: He worked for the Arts Council as a research officer and BBC Television as a script editor before entering academia.
  • include: Members are welcome from all sectors including academia, local government, commercial consultancies, and community and voluntary groups.
  • join: Before joining academia full time Frank worked for asset managers in the field of Socially Responsible Investments.
  • leave: He left academia to work in the Patent Office at Bern in 1902.
  • bring: The important factor that emerged was the need for a middle ground to bring academia and business closer together.
  • link: It boasts an associate Dean for Enterprise, and considers linking academia with enterprise central to its activity.

Preposition: as

  • researcher: If you are interested in mathematics in its own right, you might like to consider a career in academia as a mathematics researcher.

Adjective modifier

  • outside: Most others are either retired, outside mainstream academia or tied to the fossil fuel industry.
  • British: I consider the British academia the best of the best for higher education.
  • legal: It then considers implications for legal academia over the next two decades, based partly on various experiments in recent years.
  • American: There is enough futile self-laceration in American academia without Spivak mauling the victim a little further.
  • modern: True to form modern academia and its various experts have largely ignored these finds or simply brushed them aside as hoaxed.

Modifies a noun

  • today: Tim believes YES is crucial to the development of young scientists in academia today.

Noun used with modifier

  • mainstream: Most others are either retired, outside mainstream academia or tied to the fossil fuel industry.
  • film: Let's hope that the Close Up series can go from strength to strength and become an indispensable guide for those in film academia.
  • industry: Over the last ten years a huge amount of money has been invested in this problem which has straddled the industry academia divide.

Preposition: in

  • general: Academia in general has proved the odor cocktail is made up of PM10's, CO2 and Ammonia.
  • field: He is a Royal Society Industry Fellow undertaking collaborative research across industry and academia in the field of residual stress and fracture.

Preposition: for

  • time: Don't be alarmed by this if you have been away from academia for a long time.

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