intercollegiate
adjective
in·ter·col·le·giate
ˌin-tər-kə-ˈlē-jət 
-jē-ət
: existing, carried on, or participating in activities between colleges
intercollegiate athletics
Examples of intercollegiate in a Sentence
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For students who wanted to play intercollegiate basketball, the Chinese even had their own league.
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Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The real athletics program challenge is making sure that students in those few intercollegiate sports that generate significant revenues are not abused by excessive time, travel demands, and abuse imposed by coaches whose salaries and continued employment depend on their success.
—Donna Lopiano, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Adjust existing restrictions so that student-athletes preparing for the next stage in their careers are not unnecessarily deprived of the advice and counsel of agents and other competent professionals, but without professionalizing intercollegiate athletics.
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—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
Chatbot Arena, a leaderboard founded by an intercollegiate open research group called the Large Model Systems Organization, aims to combat that by using human input to evaluate AI models.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Only 28 of these intercollegiate athletic programs generated more revenues than expenses in 2021-22 and 98.6 percent had operating losses covered by institutions using tuition and mandatory activity fee dollars generated from all students.
—Donna Lopiano, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
His teams won the state intercollegiate title in 1936 and the Mason-Dixon championship in 1949.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
The event was organized by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest intercollegiate fraternity for Black men.
—Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2024
That process took a full semester, but by the summer of 2023, Howard University’s figure skating team was officially formed, becoming the first intercollegiate team in the history of an HBCU.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The real athletics program challenge is making sure that students in those few intercollegiate sports that generate significant revenues are not abused by excessive time, travel demands, and abuse imposed by coaches whose salaries and continued employment depend on their success.
—Donna Lopiano, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
Adjust existing restrictions so that student-athletes preparing for the next stage in their careers are not unnecessarily deprived of the advice and counsel of agents and other competent professionals, but without professionalizing intercollegiate athletics.
10.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
Chatbot Arena, a leaderboard founded by an intercollegiate open research group called the Large Model Systems Organization, aims to combat that by using human input to evaluate AI models.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
Only 28 of these intercollegiate athletic programs generated more revenues than expenses in 2021-22 and 98.6 percent had operating losses covered by institutions using tuition and mandatory activity fee dollars generated from all students.
—Donna Lopiano, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
His teams won the state intercollegiate title in 1936 and the Mason-Dixon championship in 1949.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
The event was organized by the Zeta Sigma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest intercollegiate fraternity for Black men.
—Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2024
That process took a full semester, but by the summer of 2023, Howard University’s figure skating team was officially formed, becoming the first intercollegiate team in the history of an HBCU.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
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intercollegiate
adjective
in·ter·col·le·giate
ˌint-ər-kə-ˈlē-j(ē-)ət
: existing or carried on between colleges
intercollegiate sports
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