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Columbia

[kuh-luhm-bee-uh] / kəˈlʌm bi ə /


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"It's inevitable," said University of British Columbia political scientist Maxwell Cameron.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

At Columbia, Shoshana Aufzien, a Sundial editor who wasn’t involved with the piece by Mohammadi and Ma, said she strongly disagreed with the article but felt the Sundial had the right to publish it.

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

“We gotta head down Broadway to get to Columbia Presbyterian, and then cross over to Amsterdam and take that up past Highbridge and Quisqueya Park.”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan


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