diploma
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Between 2024 and 2025, rates for the supplemental poverty measures increased for those without a high-school diploma but did not increase significantly for other groups.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Students who dropped out of high school often struggle if they try to complete their diploma later in life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Each Nobel prize comes with a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for $1.2 million, to be presented on December 10.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He forwarded us the rules for starting a microschool, which involve providing proof of a high school diploma, at least.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
"I already graduated from school. Not with marks like yours, but they gave me a diploma and everything."
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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Young families, renters and households without high-school diplomas saw declines in their net worth from 2022 to 2025, according to the Fed’s research.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Hanlon warned the barrier to entry is much higher than other construction trades such as bricklaying or carpentry, which are available as college diplomas.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
An Education Department study in 2024 found that 1 in 4 young adults are functionally illiterate, even though more than half received high-school diplomas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
Then, Mr. Small and the vice principal, whom Patrick swears is gay, hand out the diplomas.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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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
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
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
They have their eyes open, and they know political economy better than our diplomaed professors.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by Horace White
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
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