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university

[yoo-nuh-vur-si-tee] / ˌyu nəˈvɜr sɪ ti /
NOUN
institution of higher education
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NOUN
educational institution
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“Money isn’t everything, even though it obviously helps,” said Andrea Godfrey Flynn, a marketing professor at the University of San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

According to researchers from the University of Cambridge, the way these ancient organisms reproduced limited competition and kept evolution moving at a remarkably slow pace for millions of years.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Lee, who grew up in L.A. and teaches English at Loyola Marymount University, says her unkempt garden reminds her of Los Angeles in some ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

When I became president of Chapman University in 1991, we didn’t require college-entrance exams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

It turned out later that Dennis Doyle, a man I knew in Nairobi, had sent the man from St. Lawrence University to see me while he was in Kenya doing fieldwork with his students.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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