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[fresh-muhn] / ˈfrɛʃ mən /


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In 2015, he enrolled at MIT and took five graduate computer science courses as a freshman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I am very disgusted to be here, to be paying this institution to be here," freshman Eliana Dolven-Miller said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Cleveland added a new weapon on Friday — baseball-player-turned-receiver Shiloh Wickliffe, who used to play football as a freshman at Sierra Canyon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

When the Tulane University freshman woke up on his birthday this August, his first order of business as a legal adult was opening a brokerage account and a high-yield savings account.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Maybe I’ll see you back here for freshman orientation.”

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Some of the freshmen, or first-year students, who spoke to the BBC had only arrived at Cornell last month.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But most UC freshmen never take the courses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Santa Maragarita is back to No. 1 in The Times’ top 25 rankings after finding players to replace nine of 11 starters on defense, including several more freshmen besides Steen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Ebright, Bolles noticed, had been making more than the usual amount of noise in the Bay Area press lately about how thoroughly his freshmen were going to shellac Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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