campus

as in park
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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Recent Examples of campus Oracle has developed a $1.4 billion Nashville campus for its global headquarters, and Amazon has leased over 1 million square feet of office space in downtown — on top of opening a $230 million East Coast operations hub in 2018. Natalie Rice, CNBC, 23 May 2025 Under the legislation, a school district’s board of trustees could adopt a policy requiring campuses to provide students and employees with an opportunity to partake in a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text each school day. Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2025 Ilan-Lael Foundation Spring Tours: The Ilan-Lael Foundation will open the doors of its mountaintop campus in Santa Ysabel in May for spring tour season. San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025 While efforts to be proactive have meant more patients are able to receive the standard of care in Dallas, that is still not the case at every medical campus in the region. Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for campus
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Noun
  • First, there’s the Key to Disneyland, an oversized light-up key that can be purchased at park shops.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2025
  • The hiker, identified as Dennis Smith, of Olympia, was pronounced dead at the scene despite attempts by park staff and bystanders to resuscitate him.
    David Chiu, People.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Laundry sanitizer differs from chlorine bleach, which also has disinfecting properties.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025
  • Trinh had been upset about past instances of livestock getting over the fence into his yard and had threatened to shoot any animals that entered his property, his neighbor told the deputies.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • At 27, Massey and another inmate broke out of a detention center in northern Louisiana in broad daylight by cutting and slipping under a chain-link fence in the exercise yard, Chief James Mardis of the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office told CNN last week.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
  • Its 129 homer park factor ranks 1st in the majors, and like Sutter Health, its homer percentage exceeds the league average across all fly ball exit speed buckets, with 78.7% of 105+ mph, 40.7% of 100-105 mph, 12.9% of 95-100 mph and 1.6% of 90-95 mph fly balls leaving the yard.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Many farmers are leasing land for clean power projects, generating stable income streams that help sustain agricultural economies and keep land in the family for future generations.
    Martin Hermann, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The new sale follows the recent opening of the Chicago Fire Football Club’s training facility, which sits on 23 acres of land that CHA has leased to the team.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025

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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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