syllabi

noun

variants or syllabuses
plural of syllabus
as in surveys
a list of the topics or books that will be studied in a course started the first class by going over the syllabus

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Recent Examples of syllabi Universities in Texas are seizing and scrubbing syllabi, and some of the country’s most storied institutions of higher learning have been cowed into paying protection money. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 12 Oct. 2026 Most mega-bestsellers of eras past are forgotten, and even the award winners that make their way into academic syllabi fade into dusty bibliography. — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 The same restraint applies to professors, who will not be permitted to employ AI to write syllabuses or course materials. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Her gift also includes 300 works from her personal art collection, amassed via a combination of trades, gifts, and purchases, as well as her teaching materials and syllabi from her three-decade tenure at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Monuments, syllabi, grant priorities—these are not sacred relics but civic choices. — The Atlantic, 16 June 2026 Professors are censoring themselves in lectures and rewriting syllabuses. — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 27 May 2026 Students also pointed out to the Republic that their class syllabi had strict rules about the use of AI in academic work; Reiner said students can be punished or expelled for it. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 23 May 2026 This fall, all syllabuses for all classes will be publicly available. — Matt Boedy, AJC.com, 18 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllabi
  1. surveys
  2. sketches
  3. outlines
  4. summaries
  5. overviews
Noun
  • Fiber consistently comes out on top in our customer satisfaction surveys, so why settle for second best?
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Some candidates ran on Medicare-for-all, a national health insurance plan, which has become increasingly popular in public opinion surveys.
    — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of surveys
Noun
  • While its overnight ratings are not overly high, sketches from the show are amassing millions of YouTube views.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The game show, Delta pre-tape, and the telenovela sketches were top-notch, and across the episode, there really wasn’t a bad sketch.
    — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of sketches
Noun
  • Sun’s piece mostly orbits a monochrome palette of heavy, inky black shading (with white outlines) and a lot of line detail, with broad, impressionistic brushstrokes characterizing the landscape — at least some of the time.
    — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Johnson gazed at one of his own paintings, which hangs in the dark-red lounge and features outlines of houses.
    — Emma Allen, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of outlines
Noun
  • In an era when search results and AI summaries repeat whatever was said first, that sentence can follow a company for years.
    — Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Features like Catch me up (notification summaries) and Pay Attention (meeting notes) are still supported, but the company appears to have dropped the Moto AI branding.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of summaries
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence search overviews, which allow audiences to bypass clicking links, are now doing the same.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The companies accused Google of antitrust violations in products like AI overviews, which have led to decreasing traffic at numerous sites.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of overviews

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“Syllabi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllabi. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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