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  • verb Present participle of matriculate.

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Examples

  • Virginia City, Nevada, but they eventually moved to San Francisco where Michelson received his early education in public schools, matriculating from the High School in 1869.

    Albert A. Michelson - Biography 1967

  • Poets "matriculating" at this Bardic College, would find that curriculum requirements included raising and caring for a domestic pet, cultivating a garden - and, best of all, the College library eschewed books of "literary criticism".

    Carol Muske-Dukes: Necessary Poets 2010

  • In recent unscientific polling of hundreds of MFA applicants, however, fewer than half of respondents rated faculty and alumni among their top five reasons for applying to or matriculating at a graduate creative writing program.

    Seth Abramson: The Top 10 Creative Writing MFA Program Websites Seth Abramson 2011

  • He's right here, right now: Karl Rove is in Aspen no doubt matriculating in one of our gilded homes or within the splendid isolation of the McMansions on Red Mountain.

    Michael Conniff: Con Games: Karl Rove's Pledge For Aspen Michael Conniff 2010

  • The bill, sponsored by Gregory Sorg R-Grafton specifically prohibits students attending "institutions of higher learning" from acquiring domicile for voting purposes in their college community unless they lived there prior to matriculating.

    Robert M. Brandon: Live Free or Die... But You Can't Vote Robert M. Brandon 2011

  • In recent unscientific polling of hundreds of MFA applicants, however, fewer than half of respondents rated faculty and alumni among their top five reasons for applying to or matriculating at a graduate creative writing program.

    Seth Abramson: The Top 10 Creative Writing MFA Program Websites Seth Abramson 2011

  • The commanders meetings, which have taken place in Benghazi, Brega and Tripoli, have covered a range of topics, from the ideal size of a new Libyan military, to the process of matriculating rebel fighters into its ranks, and how to train and create specialized divisions such as antiterrorist units, according to several participants.

    Libyans Seek Secular Security Chief Margaret Coker 2011

  • He's right here, right now: Karl Rove is in Aspen no doubt matriculating in one of our gilded homes or within the splendid isolation of the McMansions on Red Mountain.

    Michael Conniff: Con Games: Karl Rove's Pledge For Aspen Michael Conniff 2010

  • It is unclear whether Mr. Adoboli attended another secondary school before matriculating at the University of Nottingham in 2000, or whether he spent two "gap years" between high school and college.

    Trader Adoboli Joined UBS Soon After College Paul Sonne 2011

  • It seems that Buckley, soon after matriculating at Yale in 1945, formed a little syndicate of half a dozen students to raise $1,800 for a pretty, all-metal airplane called an Ercoupe.

    Americans In the Air Daniel Ford 2011

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