David Einhorn

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

American Businessman

Paul D. Boyer

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

American Scientist

Use 'intramural' when talking about activities organized by a school or university that only involve its students.

Educational Context

'Intramural' events are usually casual and not at a professional or intercollegiate level of competition.

Not Professional

Indicates discussions or activities that occur entirely within a specific group or organization.

Internal Matters

Use 'intramural' to describe issues that aren't shared or competed with outsiders.

Not Public

Historically, 'intramural' was used to talk about things happening within the physical walls of a city.

Physical Boundaries

Though once common, using 'intramural' to describe city boundaries is now outdated.

Archaic Usage

 dodgeball teammates the teams that spend money on themselves they're just the same winning percentages they were before the teams that we give the money to spend on each other they become different teams and in fact they dominate the league by the time they're done across all of these different contexts your personal life your work life even silly things like intramural

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 The teams that spend money on themselves have the same winning percentages as before. The teams we give the money to spend on each other become different teams; they dominate the league by the time they're done. Across all of these different contexts -- your personal life, you work life, even things like intramural sports --

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 and in many cases if you're creating this competition between stores and online or creating competition between different merchandise categories you can often just get into kind of intramural warfare

Intramural

Educational Context

Not Professional

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