alum

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Instead, the Harvard Business School alum talks like a real-life LinkedIn post and obsesses over how many seconds it takes to serve customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

When their bus breaks down on the way to a showcase, a troupe of ballerinas led by “Dance Moms” alum and one-time Sia protégée Maddie Ziegler becomes stranded in a remote hotel-bar-dungeon-arms factory outside Budapest.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

It was a perfect role for the “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” alum, to whom dry humor comes as naturally as breathing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

"Cosmically speaking, this fast radio burst is just in our neighborhood," says Kiyoshi Masui, associate professor of physics and affiliate of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and a U of T alum.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

Johnnie Mae wiped the traces of alum from his face with a wet, cool cloth.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers