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Caltech

British  
/ ˈkælˌtɛk /

noun

  1. the California Institute of Technology

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"CalTech is very competitive. He was studying a lot," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Then, in 2006, Mike Brown, CalTech professor of astronomy and author of How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming, crashed the party and took away Pluto’s planetary classification.

From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024

After graduating from Palo Alto High School in 2009, Souverneva was a research assistant and a teaching assistant during her studies at CalTech, also writing for the school newspaper, according to her LinkedIn.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2021

Haseltine says that the CalTech group reported on two variants in New York City and the Columbia group only reported on one.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2021

He had studied computer engineering first at CalTech, and now at Stony Brook.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot

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