How to Use academically in a Sentence

academically

adverb
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  • The Warner kids were challenged to perform academically and placed in sports at a young age so long as their grades were maintained.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The authors say states and districts should use the remaining funds to help students catch up academically.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Hunter, which is among the most academically competitive of the CUNY colleges, tends to be a commuter school, and students often work part or full time.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • All kids have their own unique strengths and challenges, with some needing a bit more support academically than others.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 21 Jan. 2024
  • That would cover Chicago’s 11 selective high schools that rank academically among the best in the state and nationwide.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Kids are struggling academically now more than ever because of her collusion with the CDC to lock kids out of learning.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Branch excelled academically and finished high school at a young age.
    — AZCentral.com, 16 Oct. 2022
  • And every child in America should have the chance to be academically successful.
    — Laura Klairmont, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
  • By first grade Dakotah was thriving and on track academically.
    — Erica L. Green, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • As Louis, the youngest, is about to leave home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more secretive.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the themes the book covers are the definition of masculinity men learn early in their lives and dealing with the pressure to succeed academically.
    — Agnes Constante, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • By almost any measure, more teenagers from the top half are qualified to attend these colleges and prepared to thrive academically.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • No matter, her legacy will last: a softball state title, at least one school scoring record in field hockey, ranked third in her class academically.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Studies show that kids raised in this way often do well socially and academically.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2023
  • Dunn did well academically, too, spending only a few months each in sixth and seventh grade before being fast-tracked into eighth.
    — Chris Pomorski, The New Republic, 23 June 2022
  • According to The Post-Schar School poll, 65 percent of parents with kids in schools say at least some of their children were losing ground academically during the covid-19 pandemic.
    — Emily Guskin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Our students are challenged academically in a way that applies to all learners.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
  • David, the oldest, thrived academically, went to Rutgers University and then worked briefly as a teacher.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But keep in mind, your individual results could vary, so don’t write off applying to a school that suits you academically, based on those tools alone.
    — Emma Whitford, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to attend the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, slightly older and not as successful academically, becomes more and more secretive.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That approach excludes students who are struggling academically and those who need more of a challenge.
    — Erin Einhorn, NBC News, 19 July 2022
  • At the same time, students are struggling academically.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2022
  • No team from the academically prestigious league that doesn't give athletic scholarships has gone further since Penn made the Final Four in 1979.
    — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • No team from the academically prestigious league that doesn’t give athletic scholarships has gone further since Penn made the Final Four in 1979.
    — Josh Dubow, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Advocacy centers and peace centers give students a place in the building to cool down if their emotions threaten to throw them off track academically.
    — Raymond Pierce, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • And research has shown that, in some cases, Black students perform better academically with a Black teacher who failed the Praxis exam than with a white teacher who passed.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • By that time, these issues had been much better studied academically and socially within Japan and throughout the world.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
  • Charles excelled in Merced’s public school, both academically and as the student body president.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Research shows that kids whose parents stay involved in school tend to do better, both academically and socially.
    — Sarah Chaves, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Some people just aren’t cut out for research paper writing, even if they are academically gifted.
    — Ocasio Media, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022

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