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 Off-campus housing can typically mean an aging apartment building, a rental house or a converted home near campus. Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 That in turn ignited protests across the United States, especially on college campuses. Giovanna Dell'orto, Fortune, 31 July 2026 For SoFi, recruiting on Notre Dame’s campus likely isn’t the primary driver of the Fighting Irish patches. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 July 2026 The full data center campus is expected to use 54 million gallons per year. Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for campus
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Noun
  • Goodman even noted that Coors Field is not in the top five home run hitter parks by Baseball Savant’s park factor metric.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • With cars that spin at 72 mph — Universal’s fastest coaster anywhere — Hollywood Drift promises to deliver a park experience that lives up to the franchise’s name.
    Robert Niles, Oc Register, 21 July 2026
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  • The commission now appears poised to rule next month that the Georgia Republican Assembly and its affiliated political action committee failed to property disclose more than $187,000 in spending to support numerous candidates in recent years.
    David Wickert, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Almanza was charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and is currently being held on a $1 million bond in the Faulkner County jail.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Lush green grass isn’t possible in all areas of your yard, which is why groundcovers come in handy to fill in those empty spaces.
    Mallory Carra, The Spruce, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The closest Westlake residence is approximately 1,200 yards away, or two-thirds of a mile.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Aug. 2026
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  • And as for Amazon’s core cloud business, which has seen its own boost from post-training reinforcement learning and agent tool use, Jassy noted that 85% of global IT spending is still on-premises.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 July 2026
  • Investigators found his ashes in a brown paper bag on the floor of the funeral director’s premises more than a year after Bush handed her a little blue coffin and told her Sunny’s ashes were inside.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
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  • The modest park sits on less than one acre of land off Parkwood Avenue and includes a playground, a picnic shelter and green space.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Ceuta and ‌Melilla, another Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco, have the European Union’s only land borders with Africa.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 July 2026

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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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