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universities

NOUN
institution of higher education
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NOUN
educational institution
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Colleges and universities are constantly kicking fraternities off campus for bad behavior, sometimes suspending them and sometimes expelling them permanently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Most were not at universities, with a majority working summer jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Poppy's parents say that other NHS organisations and some universities have been in touch to explore whether they can incorporate Poppy's Promise into their teaching programme.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Thankfully, AI has illuminated what colleges and universities must do—namely, what AI can’t do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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