FELLOWSHIPS Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

fellowships 1 of 2

noun

plural of fellowship

as in organizations

a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest a fellowship of physicians dedicated to administering medical aid without regard to politics

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as in fraternities

the body of people in a profession or field of activity members of a law firm who violated just about every ethical principle that the legal fellowship holds dear

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fellowships

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verb

present tense third-person singular of fellowship

as in receives

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Recent Examples of fellowships

Noun

Plans include growing its psychiatry residency, expanding adolescent psychiatry fellowships, and launching an addiction medicine fellowship to prepare future specialists. — Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026 The group also provides breast surgical fellowships across the country. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology requires that a general psychiatry subspecialty reach a certain number of fellowships and trainees in those fellowships to be formally approved, Osborne told me. — Meg Leduc, STAT, 23 Sep. 2026 For more information on Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's fellowships and residencies, see here. — Nakell Williams, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 Some of these journalists, many of whom are still incredibly young, get new degrees and fellowships. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026 There are plenty of people in the fellowships who want to be better human beings and to provide support for their fellow travelers, people who are committed to genuine transformation. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026 In the course of his career, Rock has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and was named a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the John Dos Passos Prize. — Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Cullman Center. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fellowships

Noun

But the news organizations pushed back against those summons, and the Justice Department withdrew them.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
For federal elections, the Federal Election Commission is the government agency, but for race handicapping and battleground forecasts, election tracking resources and news organizations provide race-by-race projections.

— Rakesh Agrawal, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of organizations

Noun

While there are more than 20 fraternities and sororities at the University of Chicago, the university does not officially recognize, affiliate with, or regulate any of them.

— Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Ej Dickson investigated the burnerverse for Wired, profiling one of these women who were doxxed – and found links between these burner accounts and college fraternities.

— Brittany Luse, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of fraternities

Verb

In contrast, the Indiana Hoosiers, reigning national football champion, receives $50 million over 20 years from Merchants Bank to put its name on the stadium.

— Eric Womack, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
The clock starts when the insurer receives the department’s notice, not simply on your submission date.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of receives

Noun

The company’s facilities include kindergartens, schools and technical training institutes, with more on the way.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
Zhou Bowen, the director and chief scientist at Shanghai AI Lab, one of the country’s leading AI research institutes, has similarly argued that AI models need robotics to understand the physical world.

— Scott Singer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of institutes

Noun

A lot of guys have been doing it a long time, and a lot of people have hard professions, and everybody does.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
Sallie Mae Student Loan Loan types Undergraduate, graduate, Master's, PhD, MBA, law school, medical school, health professions, dental school, medical and dental residency loans, bar study loans.

— Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of professions

Verb

Big 12 admits end-of-game error The Big 12 issued a statement acknowledging its officials erred by not allowing Notre Dame one more play when the game clock showed one second remained when CJ Carr’s incomplete pass hit the ground on the final play.

— Mark Long, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
The ongoing legal troubles compounded the stress the Hollywood couple was already dealing with and things almost took a really wrong turn, Mangianello admits.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of admits

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Research expenditure at higher education institutions rose 11%, to approximately $48 billion.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Coming in 2030 will be a proud fusion of iconic Kansas City brands and institutions, enabled by a partnership with Hallmark that starts with razing its headquarters to accommodate the stadium district footprint.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of institutions

Noun

The Chargers’ offense, already weakened by a series of injuries to its offensive line and receiving corps, struggled mightily, recording their second-lowest output of the season at 259 total yards.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
The receiving corps took a hit in Vegas, as Rashee Rice left in the first quarter with an apparent hamstring injury and Tyquan Thornton appeared to seriously injure his ankle after a 45-yard reception that set up the go-ahead touchdown.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026