the Peace Corps
noun
: a U.S. organization that trains and sends people who work without pay to help poor people in other countries
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To determine the Best Colleges for Your Tuition, Washington Monthly added the aspect of service — namely the numbers of students who enroll in majors such as social work, participate in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps or enter AmeriCorps or the Peace Corps upon graduation.
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Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2025
The 29-year-old spent much of his post-college years in financial limbo, with stints working gig economy jobs to pay down debt bookending a fulfilling, if not very lucrative, few years in the Peace Corps.
—Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Buzan began her art journey as a teenage ceramist, studied lithography in college and painted clothing while in the Peace Corps in Jamaica.
—Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 20 July 2025
In Liberia, especially, the Peace Corps volunteers were repulsed by the ways that Americo-Liberians — the descendants of the Black Americans who founded the country — oppressed indigenous ethnic groups.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 16 July 2025
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Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2025
The 29-year-old spent much of his post-college years in financial limbo, with stints working gig economy jobs to pay down debt bookending a fulfilling, if not very lucrative, few years in the Peace Corps.
—Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Buzan began her art journey as a teenage ceramist, studied lithography in college and painted clothing while in the Peace Corps in Jamaica.
—Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 20 July 2025
In Liberia, especially, the Peace Corps volunteers were repulsed by the ways that Americo-Liberians — the descendants of the Black Americans who founded the country — oppressed indigenous ethnic groups.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 16 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for the Peace Corps
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