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postgraduate

[pohst-graj-oo-it, -ayt] / poʊstˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt /
NOUN
alumnus
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NOUN
alumna
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Suddenly, she was free to come and go as she pleased, so when her postgraduate program in Versailles accepted her application, we went.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Mills, a postgraduate student in art history, set her alarm for 8 a.m., and logged on early to the museum’s site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The investigation began during a postgraduate course, when researchers noticed an unusual growth mark in the microscopic structure of a fully grown C. theotonicus fossil discovered in northwestern Argentina.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

Students and graduates in England have different loan plans depending on when and what they studied, and the cap will only apply to Plan 2 loans and Plan 3 postgraduate loans from September.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

“Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Undergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Salford pay £42, while PhDs pay £45.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Madhav and others said they’re more concerned with the loss of student advisers, who typically meet one-on-one with undergraduates and postgraduates to help them chart their academic paths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

CAS reduced the unidentified team leader’s funding and suspended him from supervising postgraduates for a year, according to the news report.

From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023

He told me that many of his clients are postgraduates worried about their money situation, and a large debt balance is “a dark cloud that always follows you.”

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2023

From the ranks of this wayward class came the old editors and reporters; they were postgraduates from the back room of newspaper offices and they brought to the front room their easy view of life.

From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger


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