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Examples of residential college in a Sentence
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The days of the storied four-year residential college experience—filled with dorm living and fraternity keggers—are fading fast.
—Arne Duncan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2010
Set in a residential college for young disabled students, the series is currently available on BBC iPlayer.
Aside from advising Channel 4, Edgar also sits on the disability roundtable for the BFI which advocates for better representation of disabled people behind the camera.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Oct. 2023
The firm has won competitions and stacked up commissions: to plan a mini-city at Sunnyside Yard, design a residential college at Princeton, overhaul the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and produce the next generation of air-traffic control towers.
—Curbed, 27 Sep. 2023
In 2017, Yale renamed a residential college that had been named after South Carolina senator and slavery defender John C. Calhoun.
—Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
The authors identified all the U.S. counties that contained at least one four-year, residential college in those states where at least one four-year residential college had mandated vaccinations.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
University officials say the aim is to give students a residential college experience that is independent but also supported.
—Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2023
Her son, now a senior in high school, previously intended to apply to a four-year residential college, but after years of online and hybrid learning, feels unmotivated and disengaged from school.
—Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
Dean of New College West Anne Caswell-Klein said in an email to members of the residential college community, the Daily Princetonian reported.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1991, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of residential college was
in 1991
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“Residential college.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/residential%20college. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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