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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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She said she planned to enroll international students who want to learn English online and earn an American high school diploma.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Three years ago, Alexandra Eala was presented with her graduation diploma from the Rafael Nadal tennis academy by Iga Swiatek.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Those with experience were also nearly twice as likely, at 20.8%, to have landed a role before receiving their diploma compared with those who didn’t work, at 12.7%.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

Autism therapy, or applied behavior analysis, or ABA, is commonly delivered by behavior technicians, who in many states need little more than a high-school diploma and often earn as little as $20 an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

She was widely known for her intelligence, and she received her high school diploma at a time when education was not a priority for the female population in Iran.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

As the class of 2026 looks toward the future after securing their diplomas, some are preparing to move from their dorm room back to their childhood bedroom.

From MarketWatch May 21, 2026

When we attend a graduation ceremony at the slick and freshly painted Choithram International School, where she is the keynote speaker, girls stop to chat with her as they collect their diplomas.

From BBC May 17, 2026

If a college degree is no longer a sure path to a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, high school diplomas are worth even less.

From Salon May 4, 2026

Much of it is delivered by registered behavior technicians, who can have little training beyond high-school diplomas in some states and may earn less than $20 an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

A Rubricken Bock, or collection of municipal diplomata testifies to another branch of his useful activities.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow

The next day a man who professed bone-setting and doctoring, albeit not diplomaed, asked me to go with him and act as interpreter to a German patient who had a broken thigh. 

From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

Ministers, who constitute the third item of the diplomaed triad, are not free from the universal mania, and as writing sermons is not coining money, the plantations are like the vocative in Latin pronouns.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

He could drive really well, too; as for belief in himself, after six months' apprenticeship in a garage he was prepared to vivisect a six-cylinder engine with the confidence of a diplomaed bachelor of engineering.

From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

They have their eyes open, and they know political economy better than our diplomaed professors.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White

Miss Elbury was of the older generation of governesses, motherly, kind, but rather prim and precise, the accomplished element being supplied with diplomaed foreigners, who, since Lady Phyllis's failure in health, had been dispensed with.

From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte Mary Yonge




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