curricula

noun

variants also curriculums
plural of curriculum
as in courses
formal the courses that are taught by a school, college, etc. the undergraduate curriculum The college has a liberal arts curriculum.

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Recent Examples of curricula The hard work is going to be changing our curriculums. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026 Their curriculums included everything Alamo had banned. — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 The reframing of continuous education as maintenance rather than a single milestone also applies to the traditional thinking around the way schools and curriculums are designed and built. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 8 June 2026 In Coursemojo’s case, Toll said the tool draws on grade-level texts, questions, and writing assignments from English language arts curricula already adopted by districts. — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 28 May 2026 Unlike the main Nation's Report Card test for fourth and eighth graders, which is updated regularly with new skills to reflect changing curricula, the long-term test has stayed largely the same since the 1970s. — ABC News, 10 June 2026 Unlike the main Nation’s Report Card test for fourth- and eighth-graders, which is updated regularly with new skills to reflect changing curricula, the long-term test has stayed largely the same since the 1970s. — Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026 Vladimir Putin has established a Presidential Commission on AI and changed national curricula to emphasize the technology. — Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 18 June 2026 The case against the proposals CBS News Texas reports that dozens of people testified before the board Tuesday, with many arguing that including Biblical texts in public school curriculums violates the separation of church and state. — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curricula
  1. courses
  2. institutes
  3. seminars
  4. classes
Noun
  • Kimpton seeks out top chefs, but said booking a daytime reservation can be more affordable and less of a commitment than dinner service with many courses.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Many humanities courses were a kind of way station for students to fulfill their general-education requirements, one of which was to produce twenty-four thousand words by graduation, by whatever means necessary.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of courses
Noun
  • Each year, Congress apportions funds to individual institutes within NIH based on what lawmakers deem most critical to the public.
    — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 27 June 2026
  • The company has 23 quantum systems installed at research institutes, enterprises, and high-performance computing centers and understands the need and urgency for fault-tolerant quantum computers.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
Definition of institutes
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  • The atmosphere was not much better in my upper-level seminars.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • They will be associated with Accor and Swissôtel activities for 18 months, which can include activations such as inspiration talks, conferences and seminars for Accor employees and members of the group’s loyalty program.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 28 June 2026
Definition of seminars
Noun
  • So do savings accounts, CDs and gold, the asset classes that topped the Gallup poll at times in the Great Recession era.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Several classes combine both, while sessions are kept intentionally small to preserve a close, mentor-style learning environment.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
Definition of classes

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