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[klas, klahs] / klæs, klɑs /








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Pamela Paul sat in on the class to discover why old-school learning is suddenly so popular.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

More important, at no time will the Class A holders have voting control of Anthropic, as the class will never have more than 49.9% of the vote on corporate policies or the election of directors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

By 2020, there were 27 Hispanic children in her incoming class, enough for an entire kindergarten.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays and bans digital devices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“All right, all right,” she said, but the class cracked up anyway.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Antonio Villaraigosa famously took classes to improve his assimilated Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

When a rare snowstorm canceled classes at Tulane last year, students sledded beneath the school’s iconic oak canopy and ran off to a block party by the campus bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

When mandates are in place, both women and men take the classes, she added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Police identified the gunman as Griffin J John II - a former pupil who had attended special education classes at the school.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

After the lightning strike, he and his father had taken first aid classes three nights a week for months.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

By Monday, there had been 15 consecutive days classed as "unhealthy" based on the local PSI air quality measuring system, exceeding the eight measured in 2015, NEA deputy director Jason Evan Tan told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Maybe Fuller, the guy who classed up “Hannibal,” could have done something brilliant with Pamela.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

A government survey published in 2024 found that a quarter of working-age Brits could be technically classed as disabled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

In one incident in July 2023, the company breached its permit after rainwater containing oil leaked from the site - the EA classed the event as "significant".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Until that moment there had been a dividing line on one side of which stood the solemn poor and on the other people like himself, among whom he had classed Amanda.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The locations, especially as photographed here by cinematographer Leo Zhang, make for a crafty way of classing up a low-budget feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

It’s not specified in the script but I think she comes from rural Illinois or something and she’s created this affect, this mid-Atlantic accent as a way of classing herself up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Even though they're a sturdy, workman's shoe, they have a knack for quickly classing up any golf outfit, pairing just as well with casual shorts as they do with high-end trousers.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 12, 2017

Dave Chappelle comes out wearing sunglasses to kick off the Prince tribute, classing up the joint for a second.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2016

I only claim that physiology without vivisection would be strangely clumsy, limited to a few empirical facts, and that, if vivisection be proscribed, we must resolutely give up classing physiology among the sciences.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Charles Richet


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