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postgraduate

[pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt] / poʊstˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt /
NOUN
alumnus
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NOUN
alumna
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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

Storm Colloms, a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Gravitational Research, said:

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

And the figures were worse for maths, where only 75 trainee postgraduate teachers were recruited towards a target of 250.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

When I completed my postgraduate studies in the late 1990s, I shelved my doctoral finance thesis in a dusty library.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

For a moment he felt as if he, too, had betrayed her by having his own plan: to get a postgraduate degree in America, to work in America, to live in America.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Then there was the shock of new visa restrictions on international postgraduates coming to the UK bringing their partners and children.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

UNLV, less than two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, has an enrollment of about 25,000 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates and doctoral candidates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

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

But the story of what the politicians, and those postgraduates of politics, the statesmen, have done for and against the fishermen of New England, is not that which I have to tell.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot




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