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matriculate

[muh-trik-yuh-leyt, muh-trik-yuh-lit] / məˈtrɪk jəˌleɪt, məˈtrɪk jə lɪt /
VERB
begin, enroll
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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

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

But the choices made as to who matriculates to serve as House and Senate leaders are made at the subatomic political level.

From Fox News Sep. 8, 2020

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

You see we are all scholars, boarding scholars, in the House of Life, from the moment when birth matriculates us to the moment when death graduates us.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

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

The Western College of Auctioneering has matriculated over 5,000 students, who auction everything from farm equipment to fine art.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

The first class of new undergraduates to include women matriculated in 1972.

From Washington Post Jul. 21, 2022

After all, he started for two seasons at national behemoth Santa Ana Mater Dei High and matriculated his way directly into the greatest college football dynasty of all time in Tuscaloosa.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2022

One day after school, not long before we matriculated, Sizwe walked up to me on the quad.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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

I object to the current program because I worked full time while matriculating at a low-cost college and put myself through school entirely on my own dime.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2022

“Basically, fall of 2021 saw Indian students from two consecutive application years matriculating at the same time.”

From Washington Times Sep. 15, 2022

“We were more of Hank Stram matriculation which is good, if you can finish it with points. When you are going efficient, or matriculating, you got to be able to finish it.”

From Seattle Times Sep. 12, 2021

“I’ll be matriculating soon, and I need to at least have an idea about what lies ahead.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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