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alumna

[uh-luhm-nuh] / əˈlʌm nə /
NOUN
graduate (fem.)
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Jordan, a USC alumna and adjunct professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, joined the administration in 2024 to oversee communications for the president’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The “Oh Yeah” and “Bad Habit” singer also allegedly spilled the beans on “Stranger Things” alumna Sadie Sink‘s “Spider-Man” character, which Marvel has kept tightly under wraps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Later in the day, the match between the US and Paraguay in Los Angeles will be opened by performers including Katy Perry, Future, Brazilian singer-songwriter Anitta and Blackpink alumna and actress LISA.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

She is an alumna of Columbia Journalism School and lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three boys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Patients, with accompanying nurses, made their rounds of the stocked shelves, conversing in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna of the asylum herself.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

They were ultimately swayed, he said, by appeals from more than a thousand of the camp’s alumnae loyalists and families eager for their daughters to return this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

The College of Charleston is nearly 70% female, and those alumnae opened up my understanding of this whole story.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024

The petition had been launched by alumnae of Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, who opposed the liberal arts school’s plan.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

But when Mount Holyoke changed its admissions standards in 2014, many alumnae voiced deep concerns sometimes in a vitriolic and personal way, said Lynn Pasquerella, the president at the time.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

“To celebrate alumnae knowledge at Swanburne is no easy task. Nor is it a quick task. In fact, it is a lengthy task, for there is a great deal of knowledge to celebrate.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood


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