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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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Three years ago, Alexandra Eala was presented with her graduation diploma from the Rafael Nadal tennis academy by Iga Swiatek.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Those with experience were also nearly twice as likely, at 20.8%, to have landed a role before receiving their diploma compared with those who didn’t work, at 12.7%.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

She’ll have a high school diploma and four associate’s degrees to go along with a personal drive to maximize every second of her time.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Roughly 85% in Goodwill’s training programs have a high-school diploma or less.

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

And as they hustle around for work, they have been constantly reminded of the one thing that stands out on their resumes: the education that ended with a high school diploma.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Many in the Class of 2026 are collecting their diplomas and promptly moving back into their childhood bedrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 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

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

He tells me he plays a lot of sport, is learning French and English - a well-thumbed Russian-English dictionary stays by his side throughout our interview - and is racking up high-school diplomas.

From BBC Nov. 10, 2025

Mr. Jenson’s handwriting was so wonderful that he wrote out all the diplomas by request.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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 Sastrow, Bartholomew

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 Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

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 Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

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

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace




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