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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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The Nobel Prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for around $1.2 million, to be shared if there is more than one laureate in each discipline.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Sullivan, who’s already gotten his high school diploma, isn’t expected to stay in the MLS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Salazar said Jester had worked hard in juvenile hall to earn a high school diploma and had resolved to stay out of trouble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

She graduated from there in 2023, having her diploma presented to her by the world number one at the time, Iga Swiatek.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Princesse was at home with us; she was a senior that year and had been preparing for the national exam to earn her diploma.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Hanlon warned the barrier to entry is much higher than other construction trades such as bricklaying or carpentry, which are available as college diplomas.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

As the class of 2026 looks toward the future after securing their diplomas, some are preparing to move from their dorm room back to their childhood bedroom.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

After all, if a college degree is no longer a sure path to a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, high school diplomas are worth even less.

From Salon ● May 4, 2026

When the tech industry executive met with his son’s guidance counselor, the school confirmed that it rarely withheld diplomas from chronically absent pupils, lest these students suffer later in life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

The boys and girls of Big Creek went back to their chairs and held their diplomas and looked at one another, filled with present joy and impending loss.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

A Rubricken Bock, or collection of municipal diplomata testifies to another branch of his useful activities.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow

The next day a man who professed bone-setting and doctoring, albeit not diplomaed, asked me to go with him and act as interpreter to a German patient who had a broken thigh. 

From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

Miss Elbury was of the older generation of governesses, motherly, kind, but rather prim and precise, the accomplished element being supplied with diplomaed foreigners, who, since Lady Phyllis's failure in health, had been dispensed with.

From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte Mary Yonge

They have their eyes open, and they know political economy better than our diplomaed professors.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White

Ministers, who constitute the third item of the diplomaed triad, are not free from the universal mania, and as writing sermons is not coining money, the plantations are like the vocative in Latin pronouns.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

He could drive really well, too; as for belief in himself, after six months' apprenticeship in a garage he was prepared to vivisect a six-cylinder engine with the confidence of a diplomaed bachelor of engineering.

From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson




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