matriculate
verb (used with object)
to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
matriculates
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present tense formof matriculate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Before she matriculates to his first year of university at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is obligated to live out her mother’s final wish for her.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
“All American’s” Geffri Maya matriculates at a historically Black university in Atlanta in the new spinoff “All American: Homecoming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
But the choices made as to who matriculates to serve as House and Senate leaders are made at the subatomic political level.
From Fox News ● Sep. 8, 2020
An NBA rule forbidding teams to sign a college player until three years after he matriculates would lessen universities’ importance as incubators of NBA talent.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2017
You see we are all scholars, boarding scholars, in the House of Life, from the moment when birth matriculates us to the moment when death graduates us.
From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke
