freshman
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The actor, who plays chief attending physician Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in the medical drama, won the award at Monday’s Primetime Emmy Awards, a repeat effort after the medical drama’s standout freshman season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Williams had broken out as a freshman for Oklahoma before transferring to USC and winning the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Charles Szares made a 49-yard field goal for the freshman team in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
I watched the carnage from an NYU dorm room, having just moved to the city to start my freshman year of college.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s more than two months into freshman year, so I can officially say that.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
After scrambling last year to lure freshmen with additional merit-aid offers of up to $200,000, Syracuse fell short of its enrollment target this school year, sending it into a budget shortfall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The university surpassed its goal by 400 students after more freshmen than expected accepted offers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
USC was at its best early, even with its fleet of freshmen needing time to find their footing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
The seniors and freshmen filed in, one couple at a time, alternating between senior boy and freshman girl and senior girl and freshman boy.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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