as in survey
a list of the topics or books that will be studied in a course
started the first class by going over the syllabus
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Recent Examples of syllabus
Nobody is going to hand you a syllabus for what actually matters in year one.
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Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Students often access their syllabi, assignments, tests and grades through Canvas.
—Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2026
For one, Palestine by Joe Sacco, which found its way onto academic syllabi before gaining steam as a collected volume of graphic reporting.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Hampshire then made the course syllabi available to other colleges, helping spur a broader effort to teach the Holocaust at a college level, according to Vromen.
—Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
Students often access their syllabi, assignments, tests and grades through Canvas.
—Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2026
For one, Palestine by Joe Sacco, which found its way onto academic syllabi before gaining steam as a collected volume of graphic reporting.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Hampshire then made the course syllabi available to other colleges, helping spur a broader effort to teach the Holocaust at a college level, according to Vromen.
—Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllabus
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Bilingual interviewers began the interview in English and were instructed to follow the lead of the respondent in determining whether to conduct the survey in English or Spanish.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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But, as seen in her mid-career survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2019, and later as the exhibition traveled to the Whitney Museum in 2021, her work came to grapple with legacies of displacement, protest, capitalism, and climate change.—
Lilyanna D'Amato,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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Each panel is made of a flax-linen blend with delicate floral outlines of blooms and leaves.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
23 May 2026
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The union says the strike is the fault of the MTA for not accepting the outline of a deal endorsed by two different federal panels that looked into the bargaining positions of the two sides.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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For this anniversary edition, the design team at Smythson looked at the Beatrix Potter archive for illustrations, sketches and prints, translating them into key pieces include Panama notebooks in blue, green and chalk, gold-stamped with character motifs.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
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However, there are occasional visual flourishes, like the beginning and end of each stage resembling sketches, and the backgrounds featuring light pencil lines and watercolor effects, hinting that the game takes place in a storybook.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
19 May 2026
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Earlier nighttime-light maps were often composites produced years apart, but Black Marble processes daily observations, giving researchers a much more dynamic view of Earth's changing nightscape, according to the project overview page.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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Tie Trust Initiatives To Companywide Business Objectives Communicate that buyers are betting on trust in an AI era where features can all look and sound the same, and LLM searches and AI overviews prioritize this.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists.—
Jeff Rosen,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
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The 192-page document, written by Paul Rivera, a Democratic consultant unaffiliated with the Biden and Harris campaigns, lacks key sections, including a conclusion and an executive summary.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
22 May 2026
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California food handler cards were not available for review.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
May 22,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
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To learn more information on our reporting and testing processes, read our complete reviews process and methodology page.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
22 May 2026
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“Syllabus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllabus. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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