as in education
attendance as a student at a college or university
Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education.
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Recent Examples of higher education
State and federal leaders have increasingly scrutinized the H-1B program and how employers, including higher education institutions, hospital systems and public school districts, sponsor foreign workers in specialized fields.
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Milla Surjadi, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
Almost every higher education institution is based in Christendom.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Despite attending a large, underfunded high school that offered limited guidance for higher education, Lin became the first in his family to go to college after getting accepted into the University of Pennsylvania.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Few in higher education have forgotten the 2023 congressional hearings in which Representative Elise Stefanik questioned the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania about anti-Semitism on campus.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
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Milla Surjadi, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
Almost every higher education institution is based in Christendom.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Despite attending a large, underfunded high school that offered limited guidance for higher education, Lin became the first in his family to go to college after getting accepted into the University of Pennsylvania.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Few in higher education have forgotten the 2023 congressional hearings in which Representative Elise Stefanik questioned the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania about anti-Semitism on campus.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for higher education
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Julia Mejia arguably received the most favorable committee chairmanship of Worrell’s supporters, with education.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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Summit speakers explored the current landscape of business and industry across health care, child care, education, manufacturing and development sectors, by discussing trends, challenges and opportunities shaping the region’s economy.—
Marianne Love,
Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Her mother lived in Nashville and Bullock came to be closer by and study art at George Peabody College for Teachers, now a part of Vanderbilt University, like countless other female artists before and since who went to Nashville for schooling.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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During his insulated schooling and military training, nobody told Joseph that South Africa’s white civilian leaders had changed their view of Mandela and were beginning to negotiate with him.—
Eve Fairbanks,
The Dial,
27 Jan. 2026
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The child can't access the money until age 18 and can only use it for specific purposes, such as paying tuition, starting a business or making a down payment on a home.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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For the moment, institutions with fewer than 3,000 tuition-paying students—which means most liberal-arts colleges—are exempted from this increase, so their budgets remain untouched.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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With Neptune entering Aries on January 26th, your sector of travel, higher learning, spirituality, and belief systems is activated for the next thirteen years.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
25 Jan. 2026
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From February 13 to April 2028, its shift through your ninth house of higher learning will require soul searching around your belief system and inner drive.—
Maressa Brown,
InStyle,
1 Jan. 2026
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Zagorac was fired from substitute teaching jobs in Naperville District 203, Hinsdale District 181 and Schaumburg District 54 in 2005, after the districts realized their background checks did not extend beyond Illinois’ borders, according to the Naperville Sun.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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The show is set in a teaching hospital.—
Raven Brunner,
PEOPLE,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Higher education.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/higher%20education. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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