as in fraternity
a club of women especially at a U.S. college
She wanted to join the sorority because all of her friends were members.
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Recent Examples of sorority
Organizers had OK’d this, along with the participation of community groups including sororities and fraternities, Osbern previously said.
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Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Morgan, who will graduate from the school in December, is known for her sorority rush content online, after posting videos of herself going through the process during her first year at the school in 2023.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The sorority isn’t alone in backing Cook.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
Mogen was a senior, majoring in marketing, and a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Morgan, who will graduate from the school in December, is known for her sorority rush content online, after posting videos of herself going through the process during her first year at the school in 2023.
—Tabitha Parent, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The sorority isn’t alone in backing Cook.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
Mogen was a senior, majoring in marketing, and a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorority
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The Deep, who was previously president of Gamma Epsilon Delta, appears during an initiation ceremony and speaks to the pledges about the origin and pillars of the fraternity.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The specter of McTavish’s potential absence looms as Joel Quenneville returns to the NHL head coaching fraternity.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Pilots allow organizations to learn, adapt, and de-risk before scaling up.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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He has been convicted of plotting a coup and taking part in an armed criminal organization, among other serious crimes.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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So, now going to the club with records playing, playing for kids that were not alive when some of these songs came out and watching a really great young DJ like Cosmo play this music from the same era with her own slant on it.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The 35,607 fans at Bank of America Stadium — the largest lower-bowl-only crowd in club history — watched Toklomati become the second player in franchise history to score a hat trick.—
Colin Cerniglia,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Sep. 2025
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In a time when even making and showcasing art to imagine ourselves outside of oppressive realities are being threatened, The Brothers Size effortlessly resists our time with a timeless story about freedom, love, brotherhood, and possibility in the space between reality and mythical play.—
Essence,
Essence,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable about brotherhood, identity and the limits of sanity.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Monoculture Problem Just as agricultural monocultures make ecosystems vulnerable to disease, cognitive monocultures make human societies vulnerable to manipulation and groupthink.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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While the motivation behind the killing is still unknown, Kirk's death has escalated anxieties about the rise of political violence in the United States and the deepening divide within American society.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Multiple White House officials arrived in their current jobs after working at Turning Point USA, the conservative outreach group that Kirk led and co-founded to energize Republicans on college campuses.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Critics and rights groups argued that both the ban and the bill function as tools for censorship, threatening freedom of expression, press freedom and fundamental rights.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Sorority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorority. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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