didact

Definition of didactnext

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Recent Examples of didact Jamie says that her father was an ardent family man, attentive, affectionate, an unending didact who crammed his kids with poetry, music, Hebrew lessons. David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018 At the present moment, many Americans feel as Boston’s didacts once did: desperate to see their country regain a sense of common perspective and fellow feeling that once existed, if only in myth. Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for didact
Noun
  • From parents getting their students ready for school, bus drivers getting them there, the nurses, cafeteria staff, teachers.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Franklin spent the first 29 years of his career in Sand Springs Public Schools as a special education teacher, principal and district administrator.
    Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report that the Piper PA-28-140 experienced rapidly declining engine performance shortly after departing from Deer Valley Airport on March 4, forcing the instructor to attempt an emergency return.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Katherine Rochester is an editor at Artforum and an instructor in the MA in Curatorial Practice Program at the School of Visual Arts, in New York City.
    Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Avery, the heroine of Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel, Flat Earth (Catapult, $26), spends many turgid nights with a pedant.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
    Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Convince the city’s powers to consult with advisers and decision-makers with deep roots in the neighborhoods — community leaders, organizers, educators and art-makers.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • That conversation, Tabatabai said, was just the start of what will be a long-term reframing of how educators teach about Chavez and the farmworkers movement — something teachers across the state already have begun to reckon with since the allegations arose.
    Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The project was led by Xu Jianzhong, PhD, a CAS academician and engineering thermophysics expert.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Authors call for a worldwide network of government leaders, UN agencies, scientists, academicians and the public, all designed to combat the spread of ultraprocessed foods, prioritizing children.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Woke doesn't just characterize academe, academe is from where almost every trope of woke originally came.
    Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Andreatta, a former public schoolteacher, is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and serves as associate pastor at Lincoln Christian Life Center, according to a city webpage.
    Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Jiri Lehecka was raised by schoolteachers in a small village north of Prague in the Czech Republic, urged to focus on academics and play as many sports as possible and treat them as hobbies.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This isn’t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Carroll balances it all as a full-time pedagogue.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026

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“Didact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/didact. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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