Academy

//əˈkæd.ə.mi//

"Academy" in a Sentence (16 examples)

His new movie earned him an Academy Award.

I'd like to hear about black magic. I was only told the highlights in the academy, and it interests me.

With the first election of a woman into the seat of chancellor, the feminine complement of the word, "chancelière," was chosen as the Word of the Year in 2005 by the Academy of German Language.

With the first election of a woman into the seat of Chancellorship, the word "Bundeskanzlerin," as a feminine noun for the title, was voted Word of the Year in 2005 by the Academy of German Language.

Whereas Spain has the Royal Spanish Academy, the United States has Urban Dictionary.

Inverted exclamation and question marks were invented by the Royal Spanish Academy to make ASCII look racist.

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

My expertise at the Space Academy was astrobiology, aka exobiology.

Tom and John roomed together at the academy.

She won an Academy Award for her performance in the film.

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The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete".

the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy

Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.

the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology

In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.

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