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 Across in-state, out-of-state and international students, the most to least selective UC campuses for first-year admits in fall 2026 are listed below. Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026 On Instagram, some videos depict people getting approached in malls and grocery stores and on college campuses and sidewalks. Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 On May 4, 1970, after four days of Vietnam War protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio, the National Guard opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine. Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 The discovery comes amidst the district’s $280 million renovations of the decades-old Kennedy High School campus, though officials said the plume was not caused by the construction of new buildings on the site. Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for campus
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Noun
  • Daikin Park’s 115 park factor for home runs since 2025 ranks sixth.
    Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Expect to see everything from elk and moose to bald eagles in one of the most stunning parks in the country.
    Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Those cells can be loaded with Tomahawk land-attack missiles as well as hypersonic vehicles.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Despite their mass, the mammals do know how to accelerate in water and on land.
    Dennis Romero, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026

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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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