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alumna

[uh-luhm-nuh] / əˈlʌm nə /
NOUN
graduate (fem.)
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The “Oh Yeah” and “Bad Habit” singer also allegedly spilled the beans on “Stranger Things” alumna Sadie Sink‘s “Spider-Man” character, which Marvel has kept tightly under wraps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Among the well wishers in the comments were TV presenter Rochelle Humes, TV personality Stacey Solomon, and Love Island alumna Maura Higgins.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

“Love Island USA” Season 8 premiered Tuesday on Peacock, with host and “Vanderpump Rules” alumna Ariana Madix back at the helm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Jaclyn is an alumna of Cornell University and the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she now teaches data journalism classes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Patients, with accompanying nurses, made their rounds of the stocked shelves, conversing in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna of the asylum herself.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

They were ultimately swayed, he said, by appeals from more than a thousand of the camp’s alumnae loyalists and families eager for their daughters to return this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

The College of Charleston is nearly 70% female, and those alumnae opened up my understanding of this whole story.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024

The petition had been launched by alumnae of Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, who opposed the liberal arts school’s plan.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

But when Mount Holyoke changed its admissions standards in 2014, many alumnae voiced deep concerns sometimes in a vitriolic and personal way, said Lynn Pasquerella, the president at the time.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

Helena and her friend Pokey were alumnae of Vassar. applicable.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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