lyceum

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Recent Examples of lyceum It was called the lyceum movement. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 27 May 2021 The Midwest also saw an explosion of newspapers, libraries and a lyceum circuit featuring speakers like Clara Barton, Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau. Kelly Scott Franklin, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022 Cadets practice an emergency situation during a lesson in a bomb shelter on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 1. Time, 23 Nov. 2022 All of the children in the lyceum participated in the exercise without protest. Mira Ptacin, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 Its roots go back further, though, to the lyceum movement that started in Massachusetts in the 1820s and offered attendees the prospect of self-improvement through lectures on literary, scientific and moral topics. Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2021 Thoreau delivered his famous essay Resistance to Civil Government as a lyceum lecture in January of 1848. R.h. Lossin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2020 The Chandor Gardens Foundation envisions a lyceum, restaurant, classrooms, and amphitheater for the property. Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 27 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lyceum
Noun
  • Steer clear of windows and avoid large open spaces like cafeterias, gymnasiums, or auditoriums.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Carey then stood, accused Edwards of lying and used a string of expletives until police escorted him out of the auditorium.
    Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Readers are treated to a variety of gardens: from the English country garden of Emma Burns in Oxforshire to the paradise Veere Grenney created in Tangier, from the terrace garden of Timothy Whealon in New York’s Gramercy Park to the tropical escape of Michelle Nussbaumer in Mexico.
    Blue Carreon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The image of the Hadids in Pennsylvania is not a new one: Gigi and Bella are horse girls, transplanted from the canyons of Malibu to the pastures of Bucks County, digging in the herb garden or swatting mosquitoes on Instagram Live.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Otis Redding Center for the Arts is a state-of-the-art, 15,000 square-foot facility housing seven creative labs, five private lesson rooms, an amphitheater and the O3 Recording Studio.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2025
  • That massive, ancient, slightly crumbling but still standing amphitheater in Rome?
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With global sales lagging too, the film won’t be able to reach profitability in theaters.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Set five years after Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), the summer blockbuster is set to bow in theaters July 2.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2025

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