fraternities

plural of fraternity

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Recent Examples of fraternities Two of the four were reported to have involved parties at UTC fraternities. Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Sep. 2025 Organizers had OK’d this, along with the participation of community groups including sororities and fraternities, Osbern previously said. Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025 The University of Georgia has paused pledging for one of its fraternities amid an investigation into alleged hazing off-campus. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2025 Though fraternities comprise an overwhelming majority of the organizations sanctioned by the university, other groups made the list as well. Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2025 Today, Black students outside of traditionally Black sororities and fraternities represent 2% of the total Greek membership, the university website says. Dave Smith, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2025 Boy Scouts marched, as did fraternities, high-school classes, postmen, and newspaper columnists. Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025 All membership intake activities for school fraternities, sororities and clubs have been paused, the university said in a memo. Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025 The outlet added that Southern University and A&M College sent a letter to all fraternities, sororities and clubs on Southern University's campus. Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraternities
Noun
  • The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • According to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, a hacker used its artificial intelligence chatbot to research, hack, and extort at least 17 organizations.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The data set is hosted on a website of the European research institutions that created it.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Powered by advanced technology and human creativity, Tala is reinventing financial infrastructure to solve what legacy institutions can’t or won’t, in order to unlock global economic progress.
    Jack McCullough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Data professions feel compelled to stick with the traditional technical metrics that exercise and demonstrate their expertise.
    Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The share of doctors who belong to unions is rising quickly at a time when organized labor is losing ground with other professions.
    Patrick Aguilar, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our conversation revealed how commercial space, AI, and medicine are converging in ways that will open entirely new opportunities for businesses and societies.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Each of these commitments comes nestled in a bramble of thorny questions that societies have been debating for the last, let’s round it off at, 250 years.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On the other side of the equation, the Chiefs’ receiving corps has looked eerily familiar.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That stat alone underscores how well the starting rotation has held up, even as the relief corps falters.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Studies have found associations between exposure to some herbicides and pesticides and cancer, hormone disruption, and other acute and chronic health conditions.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Their social credit system tracks citizens across every domain — financial transactions, social media, personal associations.
    Tanner H. Jones, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As lieutenant governor, Duncan backed policies expanding healthcare in rural communities and helped pass the state’s first hate crimes law.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Each year, millions of tons of red mud accumulate worldwide, threatening communities with river contamination and storage disasters.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Ukraine, Soviet authorities under his control pressured writers, actors, directors, producers and artists, and criticized and attacked institutes of Ukrainian history and Ukrainian literature, creative unions and newspaper and magazine editorial offices.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Research institutes in Japan, China, and Europe have launched their own greenhouse gas-monitoring satellites.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2025

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