commencement
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Commencement speakers, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, were met with boos when they invoked AI at graduation ceremonies this month.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The confab of the North American Association of Commencement Officers is sponsored by the photo companies, and they sometimes pay the schools directly for the right to shoot.
From Slate • May 27, 2025
Commencement is scheduled for 15 May at Columbia.
From BBC • May 3, 2024
Commencement is not one large ceremony but a series of smaller ceremonies, divided by colleges within the university and spread over three days.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2023
Commencement speakers, why not give these expressions a sabbatical? seat of the pants.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing commencement
The Vocabulary of College
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A Graduation Lexicon
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Steve Jobs's Commencement Address (2005)
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