curricula

variants also curriculums
plural of curriculum
as in courses
formal the courses that are taught by a school, college, etc. the undergraduate curriculum The college has a liberal arts curriculum.

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Recent Examples of curricula Vladimir Putin has established a Presidential Commission on AI and changed national curricula to emphasize the technology. Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 18 June 2026 Unlike the main Nation's Report Card test for fourth and eighth graders, which is updated regularly with new skills to reflect changing curricula, the long-term test has stayed largely the same since the 1970s. ABC News, 10 June 2026 Unlike the main Nation’s Report Card test for fourth- and eighth-graders, which is updated regularly with new skills to reflect changing curricula, the long-term test has stayed largely the same since the 1970s. Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026 The reframing of continuous education as maintenance rather than a single milestone also applies to the traditional thinking around the way schools and curriculums are designed and built. Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 8 June 2026 Their curriculums included everything Alamo had banned. Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 In Coursemojo’s case, Toll said the tool draws on grade-level texts, questions, and writing assignments from English language arts curricula already adopted by districts. Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 28 May 2026 The hard work is going to be changing our curriculums. Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026 The case against the proposals CBS News Texas reports that dozens of people testified before the board Tuesday, with many arguing that including Biblical texts in public school curriculums violates the separation of church and state. CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
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Noun
  • Kimpton seeks out top chefs, but said booking a daytime reservation can be more affordable and less of a commitment than dinner service with many courses.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Many humanities courses were a kind of way station for students to fulfill their general-education requirements, one of which was to produce twenty-four thousand words by graduation, by whatever means necessary.
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The company has 23 quantum systems installed at research institutes, enterprises, and high-performance computing centers and understands the need and urgency for fault-tolerant quantum computers.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
  • The Yale Quantum Institute, founded in 2014, is one of the country’s first quantum research institutes.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Fellows convened in Los Angeles for several days of meetings, seminars, and networking events in the fall, followed by weekly virtual workshops featuring industry leaders, including Lilly Wachowski and Mark Duplass.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 June 2026
  • Instead of focusing only on game drives and Big Five sightings, the experience can also include tracking wildlife, reading animal behavior, understanding subtle signs in the landscape, sleeping out under the stars, astronomy lessons and wildlife seminars.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • So do savings accounts, CDs and gold, the asset classes that topped the Gallup poll at times in the Great Recession era.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Several classes combine both, while sessions are kept intentionally small to preserve a close, mentor-style learning environment.
    Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 30 June 2026

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“Curricula.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curricula. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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