campus

Definition of campusnext
as in park
the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc. Visitors crowded the campus on graduation day. Rallies were held on university campuses across the country. We walked around the campus on our first day.

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Recent Examples of campus The police will have to disclose only reports of crimes that took place on the campus itself, and not reports concerning burglary, larceny and other offenses, which the judge deemed irrelevant. Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2026 My situation was similar to that of many first-generation college students walking onto college campuses this fall. Todd Buchanan, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026 As tuition climbs and federal oversight tightens on low-earning programs, a new tool lets families compare outcomes across California campuses. Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 Rafael Roman-Melendez came to Waukegan from his native Puerto Rico in 2018 to teach history at Waukegan High School’s Washington campus, moving a year after Hurricane Maria caused major damage to the island. Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for campus
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Noun
  • He was found dead after crashing his blue Kia into a home near the park.
    Yona Gavino, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Down in the Keys, Dry Tortugas National Park has grappled with deteriorating historic masonry and failing dock systems, threatening the safety of tens of thousands of visitors who visit the park’s remote Fort Jefferson each year.
    Lulu Vilas, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The property is situated on a lot spanning 5,400 square feet.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The real estate group operates 38 properties, all of which include an Ikea store, across 15 markets in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
    Sam Birchall, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Ryder Ajeto’s first touch in the box was deflected by a Florida defender, but Ajeto followed the ball and scored from eight yards to produce the final 3-1 margin.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
  • More than 30 yards offshore, a 10-year-old girl was being pulled out by a rip current.
    Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Some prediction market companies have received unflattering media headlines based on false premises—Kalshi doesn’t take bets directly involving war or wildfires despite substantial news coverage suggesting otherwise.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • What is sophistic is therefore to let the movement from sentience to moral status and then from moral status to legal rights happen without making visible the additional premises that are necessary at each stage.
    Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Those payloads give crews a visible way to assess where training rockets land during live-fire exercises.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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