purely academic

Examples (10)

• The distinction being made is purely academic.
• For the investors, the ethical debate was purely academic; they only cared about profit.
• Whether we could have finished on time is a purely academic question now that the funding is gone.
• His interest in ancient history was purely academic, with no intention of becoming an archaeologist.
• The discussion about alternate universes remains purely academic until we find concrete evidence.
• At this point, arguing about who was right is a purely academic exercise.
• The legal arguments became purely academic once the new law was passed.
• While the philosophical implications are interesting, from a practical standpoint, the issue is purely academic.
• For most drivers, the subtle engineering differences between the two models are purely academic.
• The question of what might have been is purely academic; we must focus on the present.