as in fraternity
a club of women especially at a U.S. college
She wanted to join the sorority because all of her friends were members.
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Recent Examples of sorority
The sorority isn’t alone in backing Cook.
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
Izzy also criticized the way #RushTok has changed sorority culture.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Those receiving warnings for hazing were the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Theta Chi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, and Alpha Chi Omega sorority for alcohol and drugs.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2025
Online, it’s been harder to separate her brand from sorority life.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
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Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
Izzy also criticized the way #RushTok has changed sorority culture.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Those receiving warnings for hazing were the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Theta Chi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, and Alpha Chi Omega sorority for alcohol and drugs.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2025
Online, it’s been harder to separate her brand from sorority life.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorority
Noun
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Two of the four were reported to have involved parties at UTC fraternities.—
Angele Latham,
Nashville Tennessean,
9 Sep. 2025
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Shelton said that while sexualized hazing is commonly associated with college organizations like fraternities, it is also frequently observed in high school sports.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Pilots allow organizations to learn, adapt, and de-risk before scaling up.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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He has been convicted of plotting a coup and taking part in an armed criminal organization, among other serious crimes.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Razer’s chairman and CEO is a member of the elite billionaires club whose members appear on our annual list of Singapore’s 50 richest, collated by a team led by wealth editor Jane Ho.—
Naazneen Karmali,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Because, immediately, journeyman Jones threw five passes on the first five plays to began attacking the NFL’s weakest starting cornerbacks — a situation too obvious for the club to have gone the entire offseason not doing enough to remedy.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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But even in an exhibition game with city bragging rights on the line, Lackey said the competition is all about brotherhood.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Monoculture Problem Just as agricultural monocultures make ecosystems vulnerable to disease, cognitive monocultures make human societies vulnerable to manipulation and groupthink.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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While the motivation behind the killing is still unknown, Kirk's death has escalated anxieties about the rise of political violence in the United States and the deepening divide within American society.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Multiple White House officials arrived in their current jobs after working at Turning Point USA, the conservative outreach group that Kirk led and co-founded to energize Republicans on college campuses.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Critics and rights groups argued that both the ban and the bill function as tools for censorship, threatening freedom of expression, press freedom and fundamental rights.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Sorority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorority. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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