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curriculum

noun

Definition of curriculum

as in course

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 curriculum The fund backs music and arts curriculums in public schools inspired by Brooklyn natives Jean-Michel Basquiat and Max Roach. — James Laforge, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 Suffolk more than accommodated this corpus of experience while at the same time enabling me to refine my interests courtesy of its humanizing curriculum. — David Shribman, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2026 Hasan declined to comment for this story or provide examples of curriculum changes. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 Given Donalds’ years working in education, equating an assessment with a curriculum is a surprising argument. — Crystal Etienne, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for curriculum

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In the course of her research, Corless discovered that, over four decades, 800 babies and infants had died at the home.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 16 Oct. 2026
And the White House reiterated there were no plans to change course.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026

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Iran appears to be targeting vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a military institute.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
The mysterious death of a lab worker at a plague research institute in Siberia drew global attention to a region where disease risks run as deep as the permafrost.

— Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2026

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The hostilities began as a month-long student movement over school conditions and teacher shortages in working-class suburbs before broadening into a larger protest movement against inequality, public spending cuts and the rising cost of living.

— Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
But, even then, American socialists walked a fine line—they were considered too radical for the mainstream and a mere bourgeois affectation by committed class revolutionaries.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

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