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graduate

noun as in person who completes education, pursuit

verb as in complete education, pursuit

verb as in classify, grade

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Armed with brightly colored markers and New Haven-style pizza, they wrestled with fundamental questions: Is it really colleges’ duty to send graduates into “high-impact” jobs?

As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis on machine learning—because no one else was studying the topic, he recalled later.

HARVARD-WESTLAKE: The Wolverines always find a way to improve in the offseasn when top players graduate, and this season will be no different as Pierce Thompson becomes the latest new star.

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A Harvard graduate who grew up in Los Angeles and New York, Rascoff teaches and talks to students on college campuses, learning about what Gen Z wants from online dating.

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At school, Harvey applied herself and graduated valedictorian.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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