as in fraternity
a club of women especially at a U.S. college
She wanted to join the sorority because all of her friends were members.
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Recent Examples of sorority
In the April 22 episode, Meghan told friend and hair colorist Kadi Lee about styling her hair while living at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house.
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 13 May 2025
From selling in sorority houses to collaborating with big names in luxury fashion like Hermès and Coach, INKED by Dani’s 10th anniversary marks just the beginning of what Egna has in mind.
—Angela Lei, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
In the 1997 slasher sequel Scream 2, Gellar played Omega Beta Zeta sober sister Cici, who gets terrorized via landline and thrown off the terrace of her sorority house by Ghostface.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 May 2025
Witherspoon, 49, starred in Legally Blonde as Woods, a sorority girl who tries to win back her ex-boyfriend by following him to his studies at Harvard Law School.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 18 May 2025
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Stephanie Petit, People.com, 13 May 2025
From selling in sorority houses to collaborating with big names in luxury fashion like Hermès and Coach, INKED by Dani’s 10th anniversary marks just the beginning of what Egna has in mind.
—Angela Lei, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
In the 1997 slasher sequel Scream 2, Gellar played Omega Beta Zeta sober sister Cici, who gets terrorized via landline and thrown off the terrace of her sorority house by Ghostface.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 May 2025
Witherspoon, 49, starred in Legally Blonde as Woods, a sorority girl who tries to win back her ex-boyfriend by following him to his studies at Harvard Law School.
—Nicholas Rice, People.com, 18 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorority
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Since débuting in March, a company called Crave New World has been hawking its next-gen TV dinners on college campuses, even brokering a deal with fraternities and sororities: free food to fuel a social-media competition (the prize: tickets to the N.C.A.A. Final Four).—
Sheila Yasmin Marikar,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Friday, March 27: This dance troupe blends traditional African styles with those from Black fraternities and sororities and contemporary forms in a show that also features storytelling, humor and audience participation.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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It also is used in Europe in general, in different organizations like police, like border control.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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His organization advocates for housing developers across the region.—
Jack Rodriquez-Vars,
Sacbee.com,
28 June 2025
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View gallery - 4 images Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 June 2025
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For years, some national breed clubs treated deafness as a genetic defect.—
Lila Hempel-Edgers,
Charlotte Observer,
23 June 2025
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The cowboy, that paragon of rugged individualism, stands for stoicism and a wordless sweaty brotherhood.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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Soda Stereo's Zeta Bosio, Charly Alberti, and more look back at how high expectations, tragedy, and a lasting brotherhood shaped the Argentine masterpiece June 21, 2025 First, there’s the black and white portrait.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
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Some members of the group are transgender, or have rejected binary sexuality, and are interested in the role artificial intelligence may play in creating a new society, according to interviews and court records.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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The ayatollahs have deprived the country of a prosperous civil society, channelling resources instead into militarism and messianic fantasy.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Even the most dedicated seed-eating songbirds must eat insects and other arthropods, that many-legged group of creatures that includes spiders and millipedes, to produce eggs, to grow new feathers and to feed their young.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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WilmerHale is representing a group of inspectors general who were fired by the president at the start of his administration, and Jenner & Block is involved in a challenge Mr. Trump's efforts to withhold federal funds from medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to young people.—
Melissa Quinn
June 27,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
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“Sorority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorority. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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