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[frat] / fræt /


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The kitchen scenes are a combo platter of boot camp, frat house hazing ritual and kung fu movie.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Members of Wunderlich’s Facebook group say Lucky Strikes are more like frat houses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

All that testosterone seemed to change the theater briefly into a frat house.

From Salon May 27, 2026

He is the exuberant frat boy, the alpha of the group.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

Janae and Ainsley are being all cutesy as they walk, mostly talking about nonsense like the best campus frat parties and their white schoolmates who wear shorts and hoodies in the dead of winter.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

He added that frats that disaffiliate are working with professionals to create their own interfraternity council and that it would probably be operating in time for fall recruitment — which would likely include freshmen.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2022

What do you think should be done to keep frats a safe place for young pledges?

From Seattle Times Jul. 31, 2020

It can also indicate ample financial support for social activities outside of frats and varsity sports teams.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2019

“The house was so nasty that all the college frats had turned it down as unsanitary,” he recalled in a commencement speech this year at Catholic University’s law school.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2018

They have intercollegiate games and frats, and I guess it’s all right.

From Cloudy Jewel by Grace Livingston Hill




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