diploma
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More families reason that if they are going to spend tens of thousands of dollars, the diploma better pay off with a good job—otherwise why bother?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
She said she planned to enroll international students who want to learn English online and earn an American high school diploma.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
After all, it wasn’t like she had many career options without a high school diploma.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Hanlon warned the barrier to entry is much higher than other construction trades such as bricklaying or carpentry, which are available as college diplomas.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
When the tech industry executive met with his son’s guidance counselor, the school confirmed that it rarely withheld diplomas from chronically absent pupils, lest these students suffer later in life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
She didn’t even have any diplomas up on the wall.“I feel like I might not be driving the bus of my consciousness,” I said.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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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 Bartholomew Sastrow
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 Jonathon Holt Ingraham
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
They have their eyes open, and they know political economy better than our diplomaed professors.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White
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 A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
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