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matriculate

[muh-trik-yuh-leyt, muh-trik-yuh-lit] / məˈtrɪk jəˌleɪt, məˈtrɪk jə lɪt /
VERB
begin, enroll
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Seemingly, all the children of the Valley are being shuttled by their parents toward Stanford, where they will matriculate by hook or by crook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

More than half of high-school grads matriculate to college, even though only 35% of 12th graders score proficient in reading and 22% in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

While it will take a little time for the students to matriculate through college and into the workforce, this plan will be a significant contributor to solving the controller shortage problem.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025

I need it to matriculate into the master's programme I was accepted into at Columbia.

From BBC ● May 4, 2024

She was told that she couldn’t matriculate lacking a high school education.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The captivating ecclesiastical drama “Servants,” set in 1980s Czechoslovakia, follows teenage matriculates at a Christian seminary who awaken to a grim reality.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

“All American’s” Geffri Maya matriculates at a historically Black university in Atlanta in the new spinoff “All American: Homecoming.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

But the choices made as to who matriculates to serve as House and Senate leaders are made at the subatomic political level.

From Fox News ● Sep. 8, 2020

An NBA rule forbidding teams to sign a college player until three years after he matriculates would lessen universities’ importance as incubators of NBA talent.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2017

The new department was opened in October, 1850, with ninety matriculates and grew with extraordinary rapidity, so that for the first years the enrolment exceeded that of the Literary Department.

From The University of Michigan by Wilfred Shaw

By far the biggest factor in admission, however, is whether an applicant has matriculated from another magnet school and how long an applicant has been on the waiting list for a magnet school.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Since it was founded in 1948, the school has matriculated over 5,000 students, who also auction everything from real estate to farm equipment to fine art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Overall, the report found, about 160 Black men matriculated at Harvard’s undergraduate college from 1890 to 1940, an average of little more than three per year and 30 per decade.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022

After all, he started for two seasons at national behemoth Santa Ana Mater Dei High and matriculated his way directly into the greatest college football dynasty of all time in Tuscaloosa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

Francie wondered, if it was so good, why he hadn’t matriculated there instead of at the university of another midwestern state.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

After all, we’re on a planet where the city of Rome has been continually inhabited for 2,700 years, and the University of Bologna has been matriculating students for 938.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026

The total number of black and Hispanic students matriculating at law schools has risen more than 5% over the past two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

The Seahawks were driving toward a touchdown that would have pulled them within one score, but instead Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce promptly did their thing, matriculating down the field for a put-away Chiefs score.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2022

I object to the current program because I worked full time while matriculating at a low-cost college and put myself through school entirely on my own dime.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

“I’ll be matriculating soon, and I need to at least have an idea about what lies ahead.”

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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