college
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Coinbase has made sports a central focus of its prediction market strategy, prompting users to “trade the madness” as the college basketball tournament got under way this month.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
At the time I was working as a hairstylist, a career I’d fallen into after dropping out of college in my early 20s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
In 1995, during his first year at the military college, Hansen met one of his heroes: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
DeLorenzo spent nearly two decades as an official, working her way up through high school and various levels of college football, before becoming only the third woman to officiate NFL games.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Of everything we’d worked to attain—from our college schoolbooks, to our Sunday best, to the materials we used for teaching—much of it had been destroyed.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.