Columbia

[kuh-luhm-bee-uh] / kəˈlʌm bi ə /

NOUN

United States

Synonyms

WEAK

America Land of Liberty New World U.S. U.S.A. US US of A USA land of opportunity the States

Example Sentences

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Then there are also contributions from technologies that are relatively new, Columbia University’s Halff said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

About the author: Bill Grueskin is on the faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Those include the Columbia University campus protester Mahmoud Khalil and a Venezuelan man sent to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Less than a year after he began posting on TikTok, Todd signed to Columbia Records in July 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

“We gotta head down Broadway to get to Columbia Presbyterian, and then cross over to Amsterdam and take that up past Highbridge and Quisqueya Park.”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan