alma mater
Example Sentences
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Prince William’s alma mater, Scotland’s elite University of St. Andrew’s, receives so many Americans it is now sometimes referred to as “mini-Nantucket.”
He’s a Granada Hills High graduate and was a teacher and girls’ basketball coach at his alma mater “forever.”
From Los Angeles Times
After returning to Hungary, in 1960 he became a repetiteur with the Budapest Philharmonic Society, and would later teach piano and chamber music at his alma mater.
From Barron's
His name was floated for other jobs, too, including the coordinator position at his alma mater, Georgia Tech.
From Los Angeles Times
Women, considering they’re basically an intramural team from my alma mater, Wisconsin.
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