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exam

[ig-zam] / ɪgˈzæm /




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But since CTE can only be confirmed in a post-mortem brain exam, the true extent among NFL players has remained unclear.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Freeman was scheduled to take a final exam the day he was drafted.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Once you were finally in the exam room, your doctor tried to squeeze a lot into a short visit before moving on to the next patient.

From Slate Aug. 22, 2026

In most states, if a school isn’t ABA-approved, law-school graduates can’t take the bar exam to become licensed lawyers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

And in Vienna—the very place where Mendel had failed his botany exam in 1856—another young botanist, Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, also rediscovered Mendel’s laws.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The UC debate over whether to restore SAT and ACT emerged as one of the university’s most closely watched issues after more than 3,000 UC faculty signed open letters demanding the exams return.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

A simple Google search of this management software continues to show on-going issues due to outages, ransomware breaches, cyberattacks and tech glitches that caused global classes and exams to need rescheduling.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Her employer paid for exams and training, as well as a wage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

Some of those older candidates will be mature students sitting exams for the first time, but most will be young people resitting papers.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

She wanted to hire women, but by law she had to choose from lists of people who had taken civil service exams in math or science.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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