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[frat] / fræt /


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Members of Wunderlich’s Facebook group say Lucky Strikes are more like frat houses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Polymarket has offered to pay fraternities, in exchange for signing up users, money that can be spent on throwing “epic parties”—one frat raised $30,510 over a two-week period.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

In a sort of passing-the-torch moment to that series’ creator and star Benito Skinner, Van Der Beek played Charlie, a middle-aged former frat boy who senses his glory days are behind him.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

If that sounds like a 1997 frat party elevated to political abstraction, fair enough.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

I trust her like I trust kung pao chicken in a frat guy’s mini-fridge.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

He added that frats that disaffiliate are working with professionals to create their own interfraternity council and that it would probably be operating in time for fall recruitment — which would likely include freshmen.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2022

“There’s still a disconnect between queerness and frats and sororities as things that can go together,” Schieche said.

From Seattle Times Jun. 22, 2022

Then I started hearing stories about frats or about people going out.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2020

“The house was so nasty that all the college frats had turned it down as unsanitary,” he recalled in a commencement speech this year at Catholic University’s law school.

From New York Times Jul. 14, 2018

They voted me campaign leader on the strength of my service, and the next day we got the rest of the frats together, buried the hatchet and doped out the campaign.

From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch




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