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freshman

[fresh-muhn] / ˈfrɛʃ mən /


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The measures include capping high school freshman classes at 28 students and creating 15,000 new university places.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Bel, who graduated from Springfield High in May, had been fitted with an ankle monitor just before his freshman year of college.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

El-Sayed proposed to his wife when she was a freshman and he was a junior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Pretty good,” Trent, USC’s star freshman receiver, said on the sideline when asked about Grant’s touchdown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Farmer asked a fellow freshman, who was unpacking his dry-cleaned clothes, “How come you put your shirts in plastic?”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

Together the introductory courses make up about 5% of the classes freshmen take, ranging from 2% at UC Irvine to 12% at UC Merced.

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

Jim keeps inviting me to sit with him and Peter and other freshmen at lunch.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins


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