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gymnasium

[jim-ney-zee-uhm] / dʒɪmˈneɪ zi əm /


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"There is a risk that the fire could reach homes, but we are deploying all available resources to protect them," he said, with a nearby gymnasium opened to accommodate those evacuating their homes.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

During the 1950s and 1960s, the team reconstructed a monumental bath gymnasium complex and the largest synagogue in the ancient world.

From Science Daily Jun. 25, 2026

Protesters have blocked access to an Olympic gymnasium that served as a vote-counting centre ever since.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

He and others transported supplies into Iraq and provided security for private contractors, according to the article, which described a homecoming during which family members were reunited with servicemembers in a church gymnasium.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

We walk out into the gymnasium and head to where the girls are sitting down, by Jeremy’s feet.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

They might serve as rigorous gymnasia for the political imagination.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2014

As recently as 2006, the state's prisons held twice as many prisoners as they were meant to house, and inmate bunks were stacked in gymnasia and day rooms along with regular cells.

From Reuters Oct. 15, 2013

Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were Italian youth groups from Foggia and Viterbo and Gubbio and Como, a delegation from a Wiesbaden publishing house, some doctors from Canada, and alumni from two gymnasia in Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gymnasia, or classical schools, fall legally speaking under the head of higher education.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Emergency shelters were set up in schools and gymnasiums in southwestern France for tourists and residents left wondering what they would return to.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

What calls to mind phys ed and school gymnasiums more palpably than dodgeball?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

Approximately 15,000 took refuge in schools, gymnasiums and other temporary shelters.

From Seattle Times May 5, 2024

After two homeless shelters flooded, the city of San Diego scrambled to transport people to public gymnasiums.

From New York Times Jan. 22, 2024

Still, a stream of refugees made their way to Yamagata, the prefecture west of Fukushima, where they would sleep on floors in crowded gymnasiums and municipal buildings.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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