survey course

noun

Definition of survey coursenext
as in seminar

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Recent Examples of survey course Eighteen months after Ed died, Daniel enrolled in a modern art survey course. — Emilie Hardman, JSTOR Daily, 6 May 2026 Weil earned a bachelor’s degree in 1948 from the University of Chicago, where an encounter with the works of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in a literature survey course sparked an interest in Russian literature and culture. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 Belong is also a thrilling survey course of Jay Som’s influences, from crunch-guitar emo to delicate folk music, with features from Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins. — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025 And if that sometimes makes the album seem like a survey course in British underground music of the last 40 years, well, seldom has getting educated been such a blast. — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for survey course
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  1. seminar
  2. clinic
  3. institute
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  • The clinics have over five years helped support over 500 filmmaking teams to date, and some of the early interest in this edition of the seminar is already surpassing last year’s edition.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The Mary Kay seminar, which has called the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center home for years, is on tour while the convention center undergoes those remodels.
    — Bo Evans, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of seminar
Noun
  • When making the appointment, Zordani said, he'd been told the clinic was in his insurer's network.
    — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Patients often worry that the process will be daunting, Hosseinzadeh said, but clinics offer support throughout.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of clinic
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  • The institute Asher works for has used AI to tap into the memories of the oldest living creatures on earth (the giant sea turtle), unearthing testimony of the long history of mankind’s horrors.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Araj’s institute is funding research on how to make old lenses young.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of institute

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