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graduate

noun as in person who completes education, pursuit

verb as in complete education, pursuit

verb as in classify, grade

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Jiménez said she moved to Tijuana around 12 years ago after she graduated from high school.

Finally, Ken Wilson — a former graduate student of Gell-Mann with feet in the worlds of both particle physics and condensed matter — united the ideas of Gell-Mann and Low with those of Kadanoff.

Of the 180 graduates of the program, 172 are still actively pursuing their businesses as of last year.

From Ozy

They’ve now graduated to a different school that predates the Mussolini years.

From Fortune

About six years ago, food microbiologist David Mills of the University of California, Davis and graduate student Nicholas Bokulich, now a food microbiologist at ETH Zurich, discovered that groups of microbes may help shape the flavor of wine.

HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.

The whys the wherefores, I think a lot of that is somehow a link from decoding texts, as they say in graduate school.

Many times, victims drop out of school, while their alleged attackers graduate.

Girma is a 26-year-old Harvard Law School graduate—and she is blind and deaf.

On-time graduation (10%): Percentage of students who graduate within four years (NCES).

She was a graduate, and probably knew nothing of what he thought essential for a teacher to know.

The faithful Wolff too, as a graduate of a German university, had been a fighter of duels in his youth.

Mr. Garnett is a graduate of Oneida Institute, a speaker of great pathetic eloquence, and has written several valuable pamphlets.

Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.

We have also established post-graduate courses, in the hope of inducing our young men to complete their studies at home.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to graduate, such as: alum, alumna, alumnus, doctor, grad, and recipient.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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