as in to enrol
to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member
the college matriculated 1000 students for the fall semester
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Auburn’s tuition cost $660 per year — roughly $2,675 in today’s dollars, when adjusted for inflation — for in-state students when Cook matriculated, according to the school’s online factbook.
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Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
The restaurant is named after the first woman to matriculate at the university and sits in the school’s Old Steam Laundry building.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
Rather, Yale Law School seems to accept and matriculate a pretty diverse array of thinkers.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
Put simply, that means that there are more than three times as many foreigners studying at U.S. colleges and universities as there are Americans studying abroad altogether, and about the same number of Chinese students matriculate in the United States as do Americans anywhere in the world.
—Sanford J. Ungar, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
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Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
The restaurant is named after the first woman to matriculate at the university and sits in the school’s Old Steam Laundry building.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
Rather, Yale Law School seems to accept and matriculate a pretty diverse array of thinkers.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
Put simply, that means that there are more than three times as many foreigners studying at U.S. colleges and universities as there are Americans studying abroad altogether, and about the same number of Chinese students matriculate in the United States as do Americans anywhere in the world.
—Sanford J. Ungar, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
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