as in school
a place or establishment for teaching and learning
a military academy an academy of the fine arts
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Recent Examples of academy
The partnership was a crash course for them both: an informal academy with a class roster of two.
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Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
The list, compiled by a new academy of 300 regional experts from the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, will reframe the continent’s culinary narrative, spotlighting restaurants well beyond the coastal strongholds of New York and San Francisco.
—David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2025
In fact, one of those one-off events was the host of one of the coolest moments in Charlotte’s sports history — when a 16-year-old Charlotte FC academy player in Brian Romero forced a handball in the box in the waning minutes of the contest, then overtime, then a shootout and then a win.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025
Quansah came through Liverpool’s academy and made his breakthrough in the 2023-24 season after a debut in August 2023.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 22 June 2025
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Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
The list, compiled by a new academy of 300 regional experts from the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, will reframe the continent’s culinary narrative, spotlighting restaurants well beyond the coastal strongholds of New York and San Francisco.
—David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2025
In fact, one of those one-off events was the host of one of the coolest moments in Charlotte’s sports history — when a 16-year-old Charlotte FC academy player in Brian Romero forced a handball in the box in the waning minutes of the contest, then overtime, then a shootout and then a win.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025
Quansah came through Liverpool’s academy and made his breakthrough in the 2023-24 season after a debut in August 2023.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 22 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for academy
school
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Yet most schools ban these tools or label them as cheating.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Community fear could also be impactful because many families get a lot of community services from schools, said Louis Malfaro, associate executive director of Austin Voices for Education and Youth, a nonprofit that runs family resource centers in Austin schools and in 2023 served 6,800 people.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
8 July 2025
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“Academy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/academy. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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