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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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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

He received his high school diploma but pushed his children to pursue higher degrees, and he would call his mother nightly to check up on her.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 10, 2026

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

There are kids in my class who can’t locate Florida on a map and they’re going to get the same diploma I’m going to get.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

In his office, diplomas and academic certificates crowd the walls.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

An Education Department study in 2024 found that 1 in 4 young adults are functionally illiterate, even though more than half received high-school diplomas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 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

When we attend a graduation ceremony at the slick and freshly painted Choithram International School, where she is the keynote speaker, girls stop to chat with her as they collect their diplomas.

From BBC May 17, 2026

The dried corsages were thrown out long ago, the diplomas and class pins and photos must be down in my mother’s cellar, in the steamer trunk along with the tarnishing silver.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace

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

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

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

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)




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