academic
The schools in this area are very strong academically.
She has always struggled academically.
He fell even further behind academically.
He was academically much more successful than his older brother.

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academically | American Dictionary

academically
adverb
us/ˌæk·əˈdem·ɪk·li/
in a way that relates to schools and to the ability to study and think:
Research shows children perform better academically when they continue in the same school.

Examples of academically

academically
This was particularly evident among the academically weaker students.
Populist strategies for disseminating scientific values clashed with control by academically educated experts.
They knew and accepted the priority given to what was sometimes called "academically inferior" commercial work.
Historians have for long tried to produce work that is at once academically respectable and popular.
The findings showed that students who were not performing well academically were not skilled at resolving anaphors.
The proliferation of fingerprint bureaus in every local law enforcement agency had the effect of quickly outnumbering academically trained scientists.
Students anticipated considerably less stringent parental repercussions on discoveries of their substance use compared to rudeness to others, academically disengaged behaviors, or delinquent acts.
Perhaps the findings suggest broader, generic sources of importance (in fact, academically non-marginalizing?) in the lives of males versus females.
The scarcity of good professors is a recurring reason behind their inability to develop academically.
These promotional programs are aimed at increasing the number of academically qualified women.
However, an academically well-written ethical analysis may be completely incomprehensible to nonethicists and have no impact on the practical implementation of the technology.
They have chosen to focus their energies academically.
The field will continue to grow academically, professionally, socially, and politically.
Bioethics rightly does not accept authoritarian claims, but bioethical analysis and criticism itself must be responsible and academically sound.
This model provides the academically prepared teacher an immediate advantage over the inexperienced, non-professional teacher.
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