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being an academic myself vs being an academic

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Being an academic myself' is used when the speaker wants to emphasize that they are also an academic, while 'being an academic' is a more general statement. The choice between the two depends on the level of emphasis the speaker wants to convey.

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being an academic myself

This phrase is correct and is used when the speaker wants to emphasize that they are also an academic.

This phrase is used to highlight the fact that the speaker is an academic themselves, adding a personal touch to the statement.

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Usually, an academic year lasts nine months.
An academic distinction at this point, Doctor.
An academic suspension would've hurt Billy's chances at a scholarship.
Looks like Dr Black was an academic.
I think I may have found him an academic adviser.
See, we found each other in an academic chat room.
I wouldn't presume to give an academic tips.
But this's beyond anything they'd ever ask in an academic decathlon.
Because it doesn't benefit an academic subject.
But you attended Penn on an academic scholarship.
An amateur scientist, someone who didn't have an academic position.
An academic, seemingly eminent, has his throat slit in a suburban street.
Otherwise it's just an academic question.
Planning must not become the sole preserve of those who have an academic qualification.
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity.
Started and continued to work as an academic at the University of Latvia.
The exercise is in effect an academic one.
This was an academic paper that Gerald wrote a few months ago.
That fraud is an academic superstar.
That fraud is an academic superstar.

Alternatives:

being an academic like me
as an academic myself
as someone in academia myself
being an academic as well
as an academic like myself

being an academic

This phrase is correct and is a more general statement about being an academic without emphasizing the speaker's personal connection.

This phrase is used to describe someone as an academic without specifically highlighting the speaker's own identity as an academic.

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Too busy being an Oxford academic.
The debate on the European Employment strategy is increasingly being conducted on an academic plane which the public find barely comprehensible.
Questions are being raised in academic debate about the compatibility of carbon dioxide emission trading certificates with WTO law.
The criterion of four years' full-time experience might prove unduly restrictive if a researcher, as well as being actively engaged in academic research, were pursuing a separate career in another field.
An example of this is the 'PredTox' project, which is being conducted jointly by academic institutions and industry, and which is aimed at improving the predictive ability of alternative testing methods and providing appropriate data and databases.
Most of the research is first presented in the ECB's Working Paper series and - to a more limited extent - the ECB's Occasional Paper series, as well as at conferences and workshops, before being published in academic journals or books.
Activism is a whole other education, outside of this narrow education you sometimes get in Cambridge, being taught to think in an academic way, disconnected from the real world.
Usually, an academic year lasts nine months.
An academic distinction at this point, Doctor.
An academic suspension would've hurt Billy's chances at a scholarship.
Looks like Dr Black was an academic.
I think I may have found him an academic adviser.
See, we found each other in an academic chat room.
I wouldn't presume to give an academic tips.
But this's beyond anything they'd ever ask in an academic decathlon.
Because it doesn't benefit an academic subject.
But you attended Penn on an academic scholarship.
An amateur scientist, someone who didn't have an academic position.
An academic, seemingly eminent, has his throat slit in a suburban street.
Otherwise it's just an academic question.

Alternatives:

being in academia
as an academic
as a scholar
being a researcher
working in academia

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