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Ross

I believe the answer is:

academic

(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Intellectual" , "Scholarly - unrealistic" , "Unimportant" , "Scholarly: hypothetical" , "University lecturer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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