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Recent Examples of higher learning
The Scorpio full moon arrives on May 12th at 12:56 p.m. EST, lighting up your sector of wisdom and higher learning, and suddenly, something clicks.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Apr. 2025
Within her lifetime, Fatima al-Fihri expanded the center for higher learning and research to the sciences, math and philosophy from its base of Quranic study.
—Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
Your sector of truth, travel, and higher learning is activated, and suddenly the world feels open again.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Apr. 2025
Targeting international students threatens all of us by dictating the terms by which anyone can lay claim to institutional spaces and cultures of higher learning in the U.S. To be sure, the cost of silencing dissenting voices won’t be paid by international students alone.
—Susan Thomas, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Apr. 2025
Within her lifetime, Fatima al-Fihri expanded the center for higher learning and research to the sciences, math and philosophy from its base of Quranic study.
—Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
Your sector of truth, travel, and higher learning is activated, and suddenly the world feels open again.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Apr. 2025
Targeting international students threatens all of us by dictating the terms by which anyone can lay claim to institutional spaces and cultures of higher learning in the U.S. To be sure, the cost of silencing dissenting voices won’t be paid by international students alone.
—Susan Thomas, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for higher learning
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Given the soaring cost of higher education, the student was understandably concerned, and requested a tuition refund for this course.—
Theodore McDarrah,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Nevertheless, for some Chinese parents, the allure of American higher education has not worn off.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
30 May 2025
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The Leo full moon on the 12th encourages you to use your voice more boldly, whether that’s through writing, teaching, public speaking, or social media.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 June 2025
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The plot of land, on which a teaching and a theology school were established, provided shelter for Africans displaced by Dutch and British colonialism and internecine fights over territory.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Higher learning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/higher%20learning. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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