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Leicester sold academy graduate Jeremy Monga to Manchester City for £10m last month.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
As an academy graduate, if Lewis-Skelly is sold he would present 'pure profit' in the club's accounts.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Harvey, 46, is a University of Oxford Classics graduate who has written for popular satirical television programmes including "The Thick of It" and "Have I Got News for You".
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
"For me, this wasn't just a project -- it was a collective effort built around the idea of creating something completely new in quantum technology," said Jannatul Ferdous, a graduate student in Magaña-Loaiza's group.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
I imagined myself in Cambridge, a graduate student wearing a long black robe that swished as I strode through ancient corridors.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Plus, companies that expect to hire fewer new graduates need thinner pipelines of student workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the private sector, larger firms such as Kanematsu, a major general trading company, are hiring savvy graduates such as Uta Yamaguchi who joined in April.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
This may point to a mismatch where graduates aren’t building experience in the industries suited to their skills or desires.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
However, "the transition from education to employment remains a major challenge, particularly for graduates", according to the State of Working India 2026 report , externalfrom Azim Premji University.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Penn had swapped out three of its eight Poughkeepsie oarsmen, replacing them with recent graduates not eligible to race in the intercollegiate regatta but perfectly legal in Olympic trials.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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He graduated from the lesser-known Officers Training School.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When Meg graduated to series regular in Season 3, Paul insisted she be paid the same amount of money as him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
They began their studies in economics at Rome's Sapienza University in November 2025, having graduated high school in Gaza with scores above 99 percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
A $20 burrito sounds “unjustifiable” to Klarissa Palacios, who graduated from USC in May with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law, history and culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Or rather, Donald O’Doyle, who’d graduated from Fry High ten years ago, looked just like Mr. Flux.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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She entered politics soon after graduating and in June 2020 became an assistant White House press secretary.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Born in London to parents who fled conflict in their native Hungary, Hilton began a career in politics with Britain’s Conservative Party after graduating from Oxford University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
After graduating in 2003, Roberts pursued a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Southampton and studied dark matter at CERN, the Swiss nuclear research center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Despite everything, I am still graduating in June and entering college in August.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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