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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

He didn’t take on debt for his postgraduate degree—doctoral students are paid to do research rather than paying large sums in tuition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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 discovery grew out of analytical techniques Muller developed during her postgraduate studies in SU's Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

He was haunted by what he did not have—a postgraduate degree, an upper-middle-class life—and so his affected words became his armor.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Before becoming a full-time politician, Mr David lectured at Cardiff Metropolitan University, teaching human resource management to undergraduates and postgraduates.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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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