curriculum

Definition of curriculumnext
as in course
formal the courses that are taught by a school, college, etc. the undergraduate curriculum The college has a liberal arts curriculum.

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Recent Examples of curriculum The fully online school Optima Classical Academy paid Donalds’ virtual reality curriculum company OptimaEd LLC $10 million in service fees last year, and is planning to pay the company more than $15 million this school year, its budgets show. — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 The curriculum included zines created by a young woman who, as a teenager, had experienced homelessness and food insecurity. — Paula Grieve, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026 Recommended by Our Editors Develop practical AI skills without having to assemble your own curriculum. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026 Kyle taught in New York City for two years as part of Teach for America before working closely with several companies to reform curriculums in schools. — Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for curriculum
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Noun
  • The format is a four-course prix fixe in the dining room, plus à la carte at the bar and on the 14-seat patio.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Over the course of a year, Beigel sought to gain Trail’s trust and participation.
    — Samantha Bergeson, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Monica Church was the institute’s executive director from 2022 to 2024, and Achilles remains a board member.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The state’s release does not set placement or wage targets for the new institute.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • North Bergen officials have been holding seminars and passing out fliers to let residents know about their rights if they're stopped by ICE, including the right to remain silent.
    — Christine Sloan, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • What follows is an edited transcript of the next 30 minutes, during which my family conducted an impromptu seminar on feminism, hypocrisy, and the appropriate amount of clothing to wear while eating cereal.
    — Danielle Pergament, Allure, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo's iPhone-grade chip outperformed Googlebooks’ processors in single-core performance, while losing out on multi-core performance by varying (but overall large) margins.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As that enormous dome thinned through the Holocene, its margin withdrew up onto Baffin Island, and what’s left today is the deflated core of something that was once two miles thick.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
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  • The findings bring an entirely new class of personalized cancer medicine a step closer to reality.
    — Mike McRae October 25, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The Times story turned her success into a parable about class and America’s new ultrarich.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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“Curriculum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curriculum. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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