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
Noun
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The witness reported the man entered a black sedan and drove it away from the park on Arkansas 170, according to the affidavit.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 July 2025
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That said, only eight of the 26 home runs Littell has allowed this season have been at the team’s home park.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Soka Gakkai purchased the land in 1996, reserving one-third of the property for wetland conservation.—
Lauren Costantino
July 31,
Miami Herald,
31 July 2025
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The honey never gets heated to extreme temperatures in order to maintain its natural properties.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
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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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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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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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Driftwood logs pile up along the shore like a sculptural installation, and gray whales are sometimes visible from land in the spring.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
14 July 2025
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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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