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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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Each Nobel prize comes with a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for $1.2 million, to be presented on December 10.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications, though West Virginia did ask for proof of a high school diploma.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sullivan, who’s already gotten his high school diploma, isn’t expected to stay in the MLS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

We even got a diploma with a ribbon around it.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

Young families, renters and households without high-school diplomas saw declines in their net worth from 2022 to 2025, according to the Fed’s research.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 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

Many in the Class of 2026 are collecting their diplomas and promptly moving back into their childhood bedrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

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

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

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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