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- noun Plural form of
academe .
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Starry-eyed academes like Professor Lawrence Lessig once hailed massive copyright infringement as the Internet's "killer app" and "the crack cocaine of the Internet's growth."
Viacom v. YouTube : Internet Piracy Destroys Creativity 2010
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Starry-eyed academes like Professor Lawrence Lessig once hailed massive copyright infringement as the Internet's "killer app" and "the crack cocaine of the Internet's growth."
Thomas Sydnor: Viacom v. YouTube : Internet Piracy Destroys Creativity 2010
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If as I do you hang with liberal white families with small children, heavy on academes, you'll find very few Hillary supporters (I'm the only Hillary supporter in my circle, the rest are all Obama fans).
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I am actually not interested in a fight - and I know enough about surveys to assume that this many surveys are probably on to something (being a white liberal woman heavy on the academes myself).
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I probably talk to a lot more 'average' people than most of you academes, and I find very few people know what 'Libertarian' means.
The 4% Solution 2008
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The only ones debating the invasion as an academic argument are the academes in establishment Washington who don't want the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history pinned on them.
Hullabaloo 2008
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But these academes form a type of priesthood vested by the state and it's inoften that a priesthood, vested in that manner, gives up power willingly.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Fun mix of academes, students, noise artists; all the spectators seem involved in some way or other.
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Lisa Hirsch 2008
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Which is why academes and the Bill Ayers of the world don't opt for communism.
If we're all supposed to see that Obama is a socialist, and then he wins by a landslide... Ann Althouse 2008
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My comment about "pointy-headed, ivory tower academes" and "actual working, publishing historians" did not go over well.
Monday Notes KaneCitizen 2005
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