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 The agency recommended 71 wide-ranging topics for medical schools to consider adding to curriculums. Lauren Chan, STAT, 27 July 2026 Universities built entire curricula in intercultural communication. Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 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
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Noun
  • By the late 2010s, many of the region’s flagship courses were roughly 30 years old, making further price increases increasingly difficult to justify.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The daily courses run throughout Costa Smeralda and the Maddalena archipelago.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Founded in 2021, Helical Fusion aims to commercialize fusion research conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), one of Japan’s leading public research institutes.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Beijing widens Japan export curbs, targeting drone makers, nuclear firms and defense institutes.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax.
    Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • One-on-one meetings and industry seminars conclude on July 25.
    Jennie Punter, Variety, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • Cooking classes, yoga lessons, meditation experiences, and live entertainment are also vacation activities that enhance the body and the spirit.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Analysts note that agricultural commodities such as cocoa, coffee and wheat are expected to be among the asset classes hardest hit by heatwaves.
    , CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026

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