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Columbia

[kuh-luhm-bee-uh] / kəˈlʌm bi ə /


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No freshman in the Ivy League is having a better football season than Coleman, who in five games for Columbia has caught 35 passes for 453 yards and eight touchdowns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Student organizers of a Columbia free-speech alliance canceled a press-freedom event that was set to include the Sundial’s editor in chief—a move that has sparked its own backlash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“It’s like an enormous bathtub sloshing around,” Mark Cane, professor emeritus of earth and climate sciences at Columbia University, told NPR on Monday.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Carney, who was raised in the province, has exempted Alberta from some environmental measures and backed a new oil pipeline to the coast of British Columbia, declaring it a project in the country’s national interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It was hard not to compare what I was witnessing every day in Newark with what I observed back at Maplewood’s Columbia High School where I was coaching.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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