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Venable is the first Princeton graduate to become a Major League Baseball manager.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Oliver Walker graduated from the University of Liverpool in May and one week later started a graduate role working on social media campaigns for a marketing agency.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
As the area struggles, Murillo, a college graduate who years ago felt motivated enough to door-knock for political causes, is among those who have become disillusioned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Jayakody and graduate student Sandhya Jayasekara applied a similar idea to waste.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
I’d never seen anyone in it before except the sad old hippie in granny glasses, a Hampden graduate, who owned it.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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A recent government report found that just over 8% of graduates find jobs aligned with their skills.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Salgado-Medina lives there and rents two bedrooms to teammates, and he plans to rent out the house after he graduates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Among recent college graduates, ages 22 to 27, people with philosophy degrees are more than twice as likely to be underemployed as those with computer-science degrees, according to the New York Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
On Tuesday many online posted comments critical of the pay raise, saying it was "tone deaf" given current concerns about retrenchments, jobs for fresh graduates and inflation.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Black professionals constituted the bulk of the residents, many of them graduates of the universities that sat on its borders, Loyola College and Morgan State University.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Sarisha Ganesan, 22, graduated from Loughborough University in June and started in a graduate role in marketing last month.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Sher was born in St. Louis in 1928, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1952, and joined the Stanford Law School faculty in 1957.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
When Ed and Gina Budde’s youngest child graduated from college, they were ready to move out of the Minneapolis area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Born on a farm in Bra in northwest Italy in 1948, Bonino graduated with a degree in foreign languages and literature at Milan's Bocconi University before joining the Radical Party.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Militsa, who’d graduated from the Engels Flying School herself seven years ago, led the group between the clay houses of the town to their new home.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Before her move to England, Fernandez spent her career at Barcelona, graduating from their academy and becoming a five-time league champion.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The graduation ceremony on 16 September will see Matson give a speech to the students graduating alongside him.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Teena Singh moved back home to live with her parents in Georgia after graduating from college, despite having a full-time job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Four states — California, Delaware, Colorado and Hawaii — are now mandating that students take a semester-long personal-finance course before graduating.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Big Dub moved North, where he spent the next few years teaching at small colored schools in Virginia and Maryland.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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