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"sense": "overly-academic perspective",
"word": "หอคอยงาช้าง"
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"sense": "overly-academic perspective",
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"word": "tháp ngà"
}
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"Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve",
"Henri Bergson",
"Henry James",
"Laughter (book)",
"The Ivory Tower",
"Victor Hugo",
"ivory tower"
],
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"word": "cloisterism"
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"ref": "1968, New Library World, volumes 69-70, page 8",
"text": "The majority of librarians appear to have shown a very ivory tower approach to the application of all types of management technique to librarianship.",
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},
{
"ref": "1995, Hearings relating to Madison Guaranty S&L and the Whitewater Development Corporation, Washington, DC phase, page 504",
"text": "I must say that, with all due respect, I think that's a very ivory tower approach.",
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{
"ref": "2007, Joan Gorham, Annual Editions: Mass Media 07/08, page 158",
"text": "Bob Woodruff, an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who arrived in New Orleans the Wednesday after the storm hit, calls the detached-observer ideal \"a very ivory tower notion that's not practiced in the field.\"",
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{
"ref": "2004, Geoffrey Kabaservice, The Guardians, page 154",
"text": "Griswold was perhaps the most ivory tower president of Yale in the twentieth century, and in many ways the university turned toward conservatism in the decade after his inauguration, in 1950.",
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