as in survey
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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All of this can account for the growing syllabus of novels, non-fiction, and plays to be found in Anderson’s own canon.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
The life of a teacher is one of hard work, low pay and little respect — a syllabus with all the elements of sitcom success.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
Literature also plays a supporting role in Sorry, Baby, with an entire syllabus—Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation, among others—scattered like Easter eggs through the film.
—Jen Wang, Vogue, 27 May 2025
Teachers need printers for creating worksheets, assignment calendars and syllabuses.
—Christopher Murray
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
The life of a teacher is one of hard work, low pay and little respect — a syllabus with all the elements of sitcom success.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
Literature also plays a supporting role in Sorry, Baby, with an entire syllabus—Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation, among others—scattered like Easter eggs through the film.
—Jen Wang, Vogue, 27 May 2025
Teachers need printers for creating worksheets, assignment calendars and syllabuses.
—Christopher Murray
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2024
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The share of Americans planning to spend $101 to $300 per child when shopping for back-to-school dropped from 52% last year to 41% this year, survey data shows.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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The survey sought to assess the public pulse of restoring pumas in Eastern states except for Florida (which has its own panther population).—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The sheer gloss on her lips was given a high-contrast, rust-red outline that matched several shades of her eye shadow, which also included gold and navy blue.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
1 Sep. 2025
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The outline of a tiny footprint in black ink stands out against a white sheet of paper lined with a pastel pink border.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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Last week, it was revealed that Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker and Emil Wakim have exited the long-running NBC sketch comedy series — the most departures since 2022, when eight people left SNL ahead of season 48.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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Here was half a Second City-style sketch comedy, or would have been had Second City not forgotten how to poke fun at Democrats, and half a version of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner where everyone could hold pitch and actually time a joke.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Here is an overview of some of the factors that affect your heart rate:859 Age: Age plays a significant role in your heart rate.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
27 Aug. 2025
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Here's an overview of some of the most popular seasons.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Aug. 2025
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Over time, as AI tools became more integrated into our daily workflows—think live financial reporting or even inviting AI agents to meetings (remember AI doesn’t have a career at stake) to provide unbiased summaries—employee trust grew, and skepticism diminished.—
Paul Hudson,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
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They’re handed last month’s P&L and a cash flow summary, and assume that’s enough.—
Kirk W. McLaren,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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When Little Lake Lodge was built in 1994, any home with more than 15,000 square feet of livable space had to undergo a special review, according to a report by Aspen Snowmass Sotheby's Broker Tim Estin.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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Jacqueline Reckling thinks there should be a review of cases from that time, as well as the protocols that allowed Hartig to stay on the bench with her mental capacity in question.—
Darcie Moran,
Freep.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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At this point, the Bills are a virtual shoo-in for a division title and a deep postseason run, but Allen and Buffalo still have a glaring hole in their resume.—
David Wilson,
Miami Herald,
28 Aug. 2025
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Liberty Counsel claims the university never hired a full-time professor, though, and began soliciting resumes for part-time adjuncts within months of Grossenbach's dismissal.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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It was given another boost in 2019 when OpenAI figured out that Transformers trained on large amounts of text could not only write text well, but master many other language tasks, from translation to summarization.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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For example, documentation summarization for onboarding new engineers, sales enablement tools that auto-tailor pitches based on CRM signals or auto-tagging of product feedback to inform roadmap prioritization.—
Agur Jõgi,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Syllabus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllabus. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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