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[graj-oo-it, -eyt, graj-oo-eyt] / ˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈgrædʒ uˌeɪt /






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Nearly half of high-income renters are married, 70% of those households are headed by someone with a college degree and one-third by someone with a graduate degree, according to the Harvard center.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The changes could threaten enrollment at some graduate programs that have long been a source of revenue for universities.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Kushner wanted to withdraw from graduate school, feeling he couldn’t give his classes enough attention while pursuing his startups, but was convinced to stay.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

Bronson Cvijanovich, a former graduate student in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, noted that this is also about the same volume as the largest pyramid at Giza in Egypt.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

“I promise, Nali. I’ll get good grades and graduate from high school, college, and those other schools you said.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

When he graduates, he will need to be a strategic renter.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

When we spoke last month, he said parents are telling him graduates aren’t ready for the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The top earning certificate program and associate degree programs with at least 100 graduates were registered nursing, nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing, with earnings over $100,000.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Many university graduates also face mounting student debt.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Penn had swapped out three of its eight Poughkeepsie oarsmen, replacing them with recent graduates not eligible to race in the intercollegiate regatta but perfectly legal in Olympic trials.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

For those who are unaware, ordinary income is taxed on a graduated schedule from 10% up to 37%, while long-term capital gains top out at 15% for most people and 20% at the highest incomes.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

On Monday, a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant named Pierre Damas Bel, who graduated from high school with honors in May, walked into traffic on I-70 in Springfield highway and was killed.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

Despite her patchy schooling, Steinem received a scholarship to Smith College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa after majoring in government.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

He never speaks, only snarls, and a man who graduated from Columbia Law School at 20 is described as “the perfect anti-intellectual.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

I would’ve graduated in another year, but by now I’d learned everything that would help me run the store with Ba, which was what I’d decided to do.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

He loved anime and singing Frank Sinatra, but also had plans to join the military after graduating high school.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

Upon graduating, Dean worked to sharpen her songwriting.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

When Katrina Linden moved into an apartment in her early 20s after graduating from college, she assumed renting would be temporary and eventually she’d own a home.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

After moving to Nashville the day after graduating from Sevier County High School, Dolly Parton scored her first solo hit with Dumb Blonde in 1966.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

From my room, I’d listen to them attempting, note by uncertain note, to win her approval, graduating from “Hot Cross Buns” to “Brahms’s Lullaby,” but only after many tries.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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