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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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Roughly 8 minutes later, the suspect rides the bike out of the park, and then he is seen at 6:58 a.m. on the bike at 85th Street and Columbus Avenue, police say.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 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 extraordinary specimen, thought to be one of the largest and most complete Stegosaurus skeletons ever found, was discovered by commercial paleontologist Jason Cooper in 2022 on his property just outside the town of Dinosaur, Colorado.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 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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Hurts only threw for 108 yards in that game and wide receiver AJ Brown criticized the passing offense after the matchup.Sam Joseph and, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Eagles started out slinging: Hurts up the seam to Grant Calcaterra for 22 yards; Hurts to Brown on a 7-yard slant; Hurts to DeVonta Smith for a 20-yard crosser.Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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That evening, in the no man’s land, a field strewn with empty water bottles, four Shia families sat on a picnic blanket around a burner attached to a gas tank, looking scared and drinking yerba mate.Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2024
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Barriers To New Development: Is there available land nearby, and what are the entitlement barriers to building competing shopping centers?Mike Hazinski, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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