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university

[yoo-nuh-vur-si-tee] / ˌyu nəˈvɜr sɪ ti /
NOUN
institution of higher education
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NOUN
educational institution
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Morgan Stanley’s consumer sentiment reading isn’t as dire as the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey, whose readings have never bounced back to prepandemic levels nd reached an all-time low in April.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

As Prof Marian Chertow of Yale University puts it: "Robotics coupled with AI-driven vision systems offers the greatest potential for improving material recovery, worker experience, and economic competitiveness in the recycling sector."

From BBC • May 4, 2026

McQuade is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and a legal analyst for NBC News and MS Now.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

“If all six have hantavirus, that’s very worrisome,” said Gregory Mertz, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center who has studied hantavirus for 33 years.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

It turned out later that Dennis Doyle, a man I knew in Nairobi, had sent the man from St. Lawrence University to see me while he was in Kenya doing fieldwork with his students.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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