matriculate
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Seemingly, all the children of the Valley are being shuttled by their parents toward Stanford, where they will matriculate by hook or by crook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
More than half of high-school grads matriculate to college, even though only 35% of 12th graders score proficient in reading and 22% in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
While it will take a little time for the students to matriculate through college and into the workforce, this plan will be a significant contributor to solving the controller shortage problem.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
I need it to matriculate into the master's programme I was accepted into at Columbia.
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
She was told that she couldn’t matriculate lacking a high school education.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Before she matriculates to his first year of university at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is obligated to live out her mother’s final wish for her.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
“All American’s” Geffri Maya matriculates at a historically Black university in Atlanta in the new spinoff “All American: Homecoming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seemed mystified as to why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would want to wrestle with government funding issues when she matriculates to the speaker’s suite in January.
From Fox News ● Dec. 19, 2018
An NBA rule forbidding teams to sign a college player until three years after he matriculates would lessen universities’ importance as incubators of NBA talent.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2017
Apparently it should not be difficult to take the lists of the matriculates as far as they have been preserved and by a little calculation obtain rather exact figures.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
By far the biggest factor in admission, however, is whether an applicant has matriculated from another magnet school and how long an applicant has been on the waiting list for a magnet school.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
Since it was founded in 1948, the school has matriculated over 5,000 students, who also auction everything from real estate to farm equipment to fine art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
It was only when I had matriculated and moved to New York City as a journalism major that I began to become haunted by the sound of my own voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
Born Hugh Williams, he was a “little posh boy” from London who, with no great fuss, matriculated into Cambridge, then the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Francie wondered, if it was so good, why he hadn’t matriculated there instead of at the university of another midwestern state.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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The total number of black and Hispanic students matriculating at law schools has risen more than 5% over the past two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Charles was now in charge of the entire group of prisoners who were registering and matriculating prisoners when they arrived in the camp.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2022
“Basically, fall of 2021 saw Indian students from two consecutive application years matriculating at the same time.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
If I had a college-age son with a talent for football, he would not be matriculating at WSU.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
It is also possible that Father Zimmermann caused you to stop matriculating for the reason perhaps that your convent lacks funds to pay the tuition.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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