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universities

NOUN
institution of higher education
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NOUN
educational institution
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Rockefeller's money built universities and funded medical research and public health campaigns around the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Since Rockefeller’s time, the question of how to give away money has arrived at many answers: Endowed libraries and universities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The monitoring program is based at ETH Zurich and the universities of Fribourg and Zurich in Switzerland.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

He also said the universities could only get confirmation of how much funding they would get when the executive agreed a budget.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

And every day in chapel there was some announcement about qualifying for “V-12,” an officer-training program the Navy had set up in many colleges and universities.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles


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