academic pursuit

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicandpursuit

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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pursuit
noun
uk
/pəˈsjuːt/us
/pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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(Definition ofacademicandpursuitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Despite their public pronouncements that denigrate conventional academic pursuits, some youths may privately harbor internalized standards that endorse academic achievement.
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These cognitive deficits can have an effect on a patient's ability to make informed treatment decisions, pursue occupational or academic pursuits, and his or her overall quality of life.
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Who but former students or specialists would want to know the details of lives devoted to academic pursuits that, so it would seem, all but exclude personal expression?
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The inquiry into an emerging 'regional' architecture can co-exist as both anacademicpursuitand a quest of practice.
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It is naive to think that successful research, like any lifelongacademicpursuit, can be reduced to a pithy, simplistic formula.
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There is a wealth of knowledge and evidence to draw upon within thisacademicpursuit, in addition to contemporary myths and controversies that span numerous subject and discipline boundaries.
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Despite recent moves toward a more collaborative relationship between theacademicpursuitof music analysis and the practical pursuit of music performance, there remains a gulf between the two disciplines.
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We all know that many of the young people at school have no great interest in carrying on a straightacademicpursuit.
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We are talking here more about the management of the academic system under consideration than we are aboutacademicpursuitin itself.
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A whole establishment exists around science, and research is not seen simply as theacademicpursuitof good science for its own sake.
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The administration of common pool resources is a subject of extensiveacademicpursuit.
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His main concern was to legitimize peace studies as a worthyacademicpursuit.
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During this period literature changed from a journalistic activity to a moreacademicpursuit.
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It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, oracademicpursuit.
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Theology may be the onlyacademicpursuitwhere one can seemingly be considered a theologian without actually having to know the subject matter, he said.
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Its mission is to educate boys to fulfill their potential through rigorousacademicpursuit, deliberate introspection, and critical analysis of ideas and issues.
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For the former, i.e. theacademicpursuit, see historical revisionism.
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