admissions

noun

plural of admission
1
as in confessions
an open declaration of something (as a fault or the commission of an offense) about oneself by her own admission, her cooking is not the greatest

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2
as in accessions
the means or right of entering or participating in no admission unless accompanied by an adult

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Recent Examples of admissions Daniel Fernando García Velázquez took the admissions exam for Mexico’s most famous university four times before finally getting the result that should have guaranteed him admission. — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 The company generated record quarterly admissions revenue of $540 million worldwide and concession revenue of $433 million. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 July 2026 Only about 350 colleges accept the CLT, many of them private, Christian schools, while almost all universities that use tests in admissions accept the ACT and SAT. — Chris Quintana, USA Today, 30 July 2026 Our blog has chronicled virtually every major shift in admissions over the past three decades. — Brian Taylor, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The University of California, Davis accepted 48,015 first-year applicants for fall 2026 in a record-breaking admissions cycle, according to statistics released Wednesday by UC. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026 In recent years, Riverside and Merced have increased their numbers by going after students who met UC’s admissions requirements but did not include those campuses in their UC fall applications. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 Weiss and Mitchell Wein, the museum’s executive vice president and chief financial and operating officer, told the Inquirer that the deficit is the result of flat revenue in contributions, admissions, membership, and earned revenue. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 28 July 2026 The character was written off the show in 2019 in the wake of the college admissions scandal, for which Loughlin served two months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for admissions
  1. confessions
  2. accessions
  3. doors
  4. accesses
  5. entries
  6. entrances
  7. keys
  8. gateways
Noun
  • His three-day sentencing hearing featured emotional victim impact statements, tapes of his confessions to police and insights into his twisted desire for infamy and obsession with school shooters.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
  • Ward notes that Jen’s online confessions haven’t exclusively supported a potential alienation of affection case.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Definition of confessions
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  • Now, not in pots as houseplants but growing in the ground on prominent public display, there are more than 200 accessions representing 46 species.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Definition of accessions
Noun
  • Telsey also noted that the first quarter decline was slightly below internal expectations due in part to wholesale timing and a weaker performance from a subset of doors within Vans’ store fleet.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 31 July 2026
  • Major supermarket chains like Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway, or Publix regularly discount staple items at steep loss-leader prices just to get shoppers through the doors.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 31 July 2026
Definition of doors
Noun
  • This discipline involves architecting the entire information ecosystem an AI agent accesses—codebase structure, team standards, documentation and institutional knowledge (the unwritten rules and patterns teams develop over time).
    — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Book through various companies, such as Light Me Up Beach Bonfires, which will set you up at any of the nearby public beach accesses.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of accesses
Noun
  • Paul posted more than 1,000 pages of entries over the weekend, took them down on Monday and then reposted them yesterday with redactions.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, more than 1,100 pages of diary entries Fauci kept as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases were released ahead of Fauci's Senate appearance.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 July 2026
Definition of entries
Noun
  • The other two entrances, which are sidewalk entrances, provide the interior where the washers and dryers are with an incredibly comfortable breeze in Miami’s average 30-degree weather and often times high dew point.
    — Paula de la Cruz, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • During the 3-day music festival, the city will close the following entrances to the park.
    — Noe Padilla, USA Today, 31 July 2026
Definition of entrances
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  • Teams often overlook how modules interact with identity, keys and access flows.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The album’s mood is evocative of a hot summer’s day; the combination of live-wire drum breaks and breezy keys suggests the feeling of dipping your toes in the ocean when the temperature outside is pushing 90.
    — Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of keys
Noun
  • In this case, SecurityWeek reports that a threat actor has been hacking public Wi-Fi gateways at airports, conference centers, healthcare clinics, event venues, and more to intercept traffic and credentials.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026
  • This can be accomplished by using AI gateways, which serve as a protective intermediary.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 29 July 2026
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