diploma

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A few years later, with newspapers struggling in the face of smart phones and the internet, Daily moved to England to do a two-year creative writing diploma at Oxford University.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Toruño dropped out of high school amid personal instability and lack of resources, later earned her diploma and pursued a paralegal certification, motivated by her own experiences navigating the U.S. immigration system.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

They want to graduate functionally literate young people, not hand kids a diploma that says they showed up for class for 12 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

He is among five people from local villages, all but one without a high school diploma, working on a project focused on the area's highly unusual savannah-dwelling chimpanzees.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

“I would also suggest a very brilliant young woman who just got her diploma, Katherine Coleman. She’s a mathematician and earned the highest GPA we’ve ever had here.”

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson