grad student

Example Sentences

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He looks more like a Columbia grad student than the stereotypical bearded revolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Pat Apap, a graduate assistant at NYU, helped plan kitten therapy for grad student appreciation week.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025

As a zit-faced grad student, I started a new research project that used lactic acid bacteria, or LAB, as a method for food safety.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

Told in an elliptical style with novelistic chapters, the story follows Agnes, a literature grad student turned junior professor at a small liberal arts college who is struggling to move forward from a traumatic event.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

Standing next to her was Ayana, the UCF grad student who’d talked about astronomy at camp.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas