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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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Requiring that graduates of college degree programs earn more than someone with a high-school diploma is a relatively low floor, Matsudaira said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

He forwarded us the rules for starting a microschool, which involve providing proof of a high school diploma, at least.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The Nobel Prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for around $1.2 million, to be shared if there is more than one laureate in each discipline.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

That includes nearly a quarter of those with a high-school diploma, compared with about one in seven for those with a college or advanced degree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Now that we’re all settled in the city, I can get you that elementary school diploma you’ve been wanting.”

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Some go so far as to receive diplomas from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, Rudman added—a level of accreditation that many full-time wine professionals don’t ever attain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 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

“In twenty-five years,” said Sissy, “our family will have a stack of diplomas this high.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

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

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

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White

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


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