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
In a high-rise on Northwestern’s downtown campus last week, 20 undergraduate students and alums from local colleges gathered for the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative Fellows program.
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Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Crusoe, which uses flare gas to build data centers, was tapped by Oracle in March to build a data center campus in Texas for Open AI's $500 billion Stargate project, with buildings expected to eventually include 400,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across the campus.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 22 July 2025
Authorities found all four victims dead from stab wounds on Nov. 13, 2022, inside a home near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
Khalil was among the first in a series of high-profile arrests of pro-Palestinian students as US President Donald Trump’s administration moved to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.
—Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
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Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Crusoe, which uses flare gas to build data centers, was tapped by Oracle in March to build a data center campus in Texas for Open AI's $500 billion Stargate project, with buildings expected to eventually include 400,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across the campus.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 22 July 2025
Authorities found all four victims dead from stab wounds on Nov. 13, 2022, inside a home near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
Khalil was among the first in a series of high-profile arrests of pro-Palestinian students as US President Donald Trump’s administration moved to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.
—Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for campus
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Fish and Game officers, park staff, and volunteers from Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue used drones and ground teams to search the area into early Thursday morning.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
19 July 2025
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Local parks include William Mitchell State Park, Cadillac Lakefront Park and Kenwood Heritage Park.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
19 July 2025
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Although foreign property ownership is legal in most of the countries on this list, the buying process can present all kinds of complications and costs.—
William P. Barrett,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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But after the multibillion-dollar losses from the Los Angeles fires, the FAIR Plan had to collect an additional $1 billion from its member companies, a move that will raise property insurance prices.—
Umair Irfan,
Wired News,
19 July 2025
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The former top-100 national recruit signed with USC in December 2020 and broke out three years later in his first start with 372 yards and a Holiday Bowl record six touchdown passes against… Louisville.—
Matt Baker,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
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Sketch out the yard and measure how far the spray needs to reach in each area.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 July 2025
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There’s a certain romanticism that lies at the heart of these remarkable gins, something conjured, perhaps, by that dramatic meeting of land and sea.—
Camille Berry,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
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Since the end of the Cold War, these munitions have given the U.S. near-total dominance on land, sea, and air.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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