admissions

plural of admission

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Recent Examples of admissions Students and workers are angry Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system. — Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026 Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Some also called for a reform of the university admissions system, seen by many as complex and unfair. — Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026 But moviegoing rebounded the following day, with Sunday admissions rising by 80,000 compared with the previous Sunday. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026 Schools that keep the preferences are listed publicly as out of compliance and must report more admissions data to the state. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Linda Kern, a Cornell alum who has been a college admissions counselor for eight years, hasn’t had any students bring up the Cornell case, nor have any decided to toss their applications. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 India also conducts recruitment for public-sector jobs and admissions to public and several private colleges through competitive national exams. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 For 2027 admissions, all Ivy League schools and many public universities are back to requiring or strongly recommending them. — Richard Eisenberg, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for admissions
Noun
  • Killer identified The search for answers stretched across decades, combined with false confessions, arrests, convictions and appeals before DNA and ballistics evidence identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers in September 2025.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In the 1990s, researchers were finally able to read the confessions beaten out of Stalin’s victims and to see the bloodstains on the paper.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Its stores open for eight to 10 weeks a year, but planning for next Halloween starts before this year’s doors close.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Some opening day effects are long gone, such as the illusion created by actual shifting doors at the start of the attraction, or visions of tumbling rubble near its beginning.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Latency becomes the new battleground The researchers say accesses that would normally leave a rack and travel through a conventional network could instead follow a more predictable path.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • All entries received will be judged 50% on operating as a small business or non-profit within the Philadelphia DMA, 40% on answering the questions provided, and 10% on compliance with these rules.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Beyond the podcast ad Bartlett, who dropped out of college to pursue entrepreneurship, launched The Diary of a CEO in 2017 by turning his own diary entries into podcast episodes.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • All entrances and exits to the city remained sealed, with the operation focused in Deir Bahha and another part of the city called Al-Jalda, according to Hebron Mayor Yousef Zuhair Al-Jabari.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Per a 2016 rule, students were allowed to chalk on walkways, concrete and asphalt but at least 30 feet away from building entrances and not on walls and vertical surfaces.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Working again with the vast Northeastern producer group $$$–almost all of whom are individually credited on, like, every track–Bank$ and his preacher friend talk to God over spare keys and groaning nautical machinery.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Cargo on ships that have diverted away from the Hormuz is backing up at the region’s alternative gateways.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • As one of the principal gateways into the Saudi capital and a foundation stone of the entire Vision 2030 project, the Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s airport directly threaten the Kingdom’s strategy.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

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