campus

as in park
the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc. Visitors crowded the campus on graduation day. Rallies were held on university campuses across the country. We walked around the campus on our first day.

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Recent Examples of campus Oracle has developed a $1.4 billion Nashville campus for its global headquarters, and Amazon has leased over 1 million square feet of office space in downtown — on top of opening a $230 million East Coast operations hub in 2018. Natalie Rice, CNBC, 23 May 2025 Under the legislation, a school district’s board of trustees could adopt a policy requiring campuses to provide students and employees with an opportunity to partake in a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text each school day. Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2025 Ilan-Lael Foundation Spring Tours: The Ilan-Lael Foundation will open the doors of its mountaintop campus in Santa Ysabel in May for spring tour season. San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025 While efforts to be proactive have meant more patients are able to receive the standard of care in Dallas, that is still not the case at every medical campus in the region. Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for campus
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Noun
  • During phase two, each country’s leading parks will compete within their own continents.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • At the time, many of the account holders just wanted to promote the beauty of their local parks, like Phoebe, a nature enthusiast who started the unofficial Multnomah Falls account @multnomah_falls to share her love of Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • Photo : Legendary Productions/Luxury Resort Portfolio The property stretches from the Intracoastal Waterway to the Atlantic Ocean.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 June 2025
  • The Lincoln Yards property is quite a bit smaller than our big parks.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • These layers will lead the eye upward and make a yard feel properly drenched in green. 5.
    Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2025
  • At 27, Massey and another inmate broke out of a detention center in northern Louisiana in broad daylight by cutting and slipping under a chain-link fence in the exercise yard, Chief James Mardis of the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office told CNN last week.
    Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Huntersville’s land use map for future development designates the site as an employment center, not for housing, James said.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2025
  • Many farmers are leasing land for clean power projects, generating stable income streams that help sustain agricultural economies and keep land in the family for future generations.
    Martin Hermann, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025

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“Campus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campus. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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