alma mater
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Chief political correspondent Josh Dawsey went back to his alma mater, the University of South Carolina, where the campus is booming but many students he spoke with are uneasy about their own economic futures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
On Friday, their son, Beong-Soo Kim, will stand before a crowd of thousands in Alumni Park and be formally installed as the 13th president of their alma mater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
In fact, as his unofficial biographer Michael Crick later discovered, Archer's alma mater in the States was, in fact, a bodybuilding club.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
CMU may not have the headline-grabbing power of say, Harvard University, Griffin’s alma mater, but it’s still a top-ranked school with resources, including a $3.5 billion endowment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
She urges me to apply to colleges out of state—Smith College in Massachusetts, for one, her alma mater.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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