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the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc.
Visitors crowded the campus on graduation day. Rallies were held on university campuses across the country. We walked around the campus on our first day.
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Once you are accepted, you will be contacted by a legacy ambassador to set up a time to visit Beam’s Clermont campus to pick a barrel.
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
The image below shows the campus from space on Tuesday.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Prior to the formal celebrations, LCT board members and donors gathered at the Claire Tow Theater – the complex’s most intimate space, high above the main campus – to honor the three women whose names grace the company’s stages: Vivian Beaumont Allen, Mitzi E. Newhouse, and Claire Tow.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2024
JonBenét's house was located in Boulder, Colo. within walking distance of the University of Colorado Boulder campus in the city's University Hill neighborhood, according to the New York Post.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
The image below shows the campus from space on Tuesday.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Prior to the formal celebrations, LCT board members and donors gathered at the Claire Tow Theater – the complex’s most intimate space, high above the main campus – to honor the three women whose names grace the company’s stages: Vivian Beaumont Allen, Mitzi E. Newhouse, and Claire Tow.
—Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2024
JonBenét's house was located in Boulder, Colo. within walking distance of the University of Colorado Boulder campus in the city's University Hill neighborhood, according to the New York Post.
—Jessica Sager, People.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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On Monday, a small section of the park was cordoned off with blue and white police tape, giving divers an area to change and get in the water.Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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The Albany Police Department reported at 4:35 p.m. officers responded to the park near its lake house for a report of two juveniles who had fallen through the ice.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
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His aesthetic ideals of form and proportion—along with his own love of the great outdoors—has been the catalyst for creating properties that blend seamlessly into their rustic, natural environments.Troy J. McMullen, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024
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Click here for more photos of the 4.5-acre property near Malibu.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2024
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While Bellingham's strike came from the spot 10 yards out, Mbappe netted in open play which could be seen by many as a role reversal.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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With the victory in Arlington, Texas kept its hopes for a national championship alive. 2023: Texas 49, Oklahoma State 21 As Texas prepared to bid the Big 12 farewell, Quinn Ewers threw for 452 yards and four touchdowns at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Dec. 2024
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During the summer and early fall, when the Hudson Bay ice melts, polar bears often remain on land, fasting and conserving energy until the sea ice refreezes in winter.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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Within minutes of take-off, the pilot described the sights below, which at first included the city but soon became a vast, vacant, black land.Jaclyn Greenberg, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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