Sorbonne
Americannoun
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the seat of the faculties of arts and letters of the University of Paris.
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a theological college founded in Paris in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon, suppressed in 1792, and ceasing to exist about 1850.
noun
Example Sentences
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To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
But the teams behind the Sorbonne project defend it as an innovative cultural experiment.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
To explore how nutrition relates to cardiovascular health in more detail, scientists from INRAE, Inserm, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and Cnam examined more than whether foods came from plant or animal sources.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025
LeCun was born in Paris, raised in the city’s suburbs and attended what’s now known as the Sorbonne University in France in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
A trace of a sardonic smile was all the recognition I got when we passed in the courtyard outside the massive Salle Richelieu of the Sorbonne.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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