t14
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
1
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1
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1
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Meaning
noun
The set of fourteen law schools, which frequently take the top fourteen spots in the yearly U.S. News & World Report ranking: the Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, Duke University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, and the Yale Law School.
American usage; Informal
Example Sentences
- "Because the schools in the T14 have been so stable as a group over the years, playing "musical chairs" amongst themselves but rarely dropping out of that band, the rankings weren't telling applicants much about those schools, other than that they were consistently strong institutions."
- "The article cites a study that found graduates from the T14 to have higher salaries and more "prestigious careers" — on average. Yes, the law schools in the T14 are excellent, but there is no magic to the number 14, and the U.S. News algorithm includes as much "noise" as "signal.""