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alumna

[uh-luhm-nuh] / əˈlʌm nə /
NOUN
graduate (fem.)
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Sink would be the third actress to play the role, after Famke Janssen and “Game of Thrones” alumna Sophie Turner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

“What I was learning in my history class is what my video production project would be about,” said Andrea Altamirano, a Hollywood High School New Media Academy ’22 video production pathway alumna.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Celia is a master's candidate at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she studies business and data reporting, and an alumna of Barnard College, where she studied anthropology and human rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Among the well wishers in the comments were TV presenter Rochelle Humes, TV personality Stacey Solomon, and Love Island alumna Maura Higgins.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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

Cafe, where she spoke with alumnae of the Divine Nine, a group of historically Black fraternities and sororities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

Students and alumnae alike looked worried, as if suddenly confronted with an unexpected quiz in a topic they had never studied.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood


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