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[graj-oo-it, -ayt, graj-oo-ayt] / ˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈgrædʒ uˌeɪt /






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This fall, graduate student Wyatt Hall is deploying motion-activated wildlife cameras across the burros’ habitat to help track and count the population.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Cambridge University graduate took aim at tech industry culture, saying companies "run on a startup mindset: move fast, break things, fix them later."

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Still, graduate programs have been a focus of policymakers on both sides of the aisle, since in recent years, they’ve accounted for a large share of the growth in student debt.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The UAW claims to represent more than 120,000 workers in higher education, largely graduate students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

“I am Miss Penelope Lumley, a proud graduate of this fine school. In honor of today’s CAKE, and with permission from your headmistress, Miss Charlotte Mortimer, I would like to propose...a treasure hunt!”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Now, "when our graduates leave the university, they will go and work in the local space sector because it is now here in Glasgow for them", he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Requiring that graduates of college degree programs earn more than someone with a high-school diploma is a relatively low floor, Matsudaira said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

A Forbes survey found almost half of corporate executives are either less likely to hire Ivy League graduates than they were five years ago or would never hire them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

That numbers-backed thinking means engineers, software developers or entrepreneurs might all find it more appealing than humanities graduates, Lechterman said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Most Allen graduates went on to higher education, some to prestigious northern schools like Vassar and Smith.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

He'd graduated from university just over a decade before, but the only jobs he could find were south of the border.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

“There are people in volumes that are reconsidering donations,” said Victoria Alandy, who graduated Cornell in 2020 and organized the pledge with her husband, also an alum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Fiona Ma played sports, was a Girl Scout — “a top cookie seller,” she boasts on her campaign website — and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The topic was proposed by two students who have since graduated: Marta Miszczak from the Dietetics program and Karolina Kłosowska-Buryło from the Pharmacy program.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

“I heard that you’re smarter than Einstein. That you’ve already graduated from college. And that you can move stuff with your mind.”

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

After graduating from college in 1946, she lived with her family on Long Island in New York, appearing in commercials and acting in radio serials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Holt wrote that Zhang kept in contact with a former classmate at the university, a purported Chinese government official, since graduating around 2014.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

They experienced an initial full-quarter earnings decline of 13% that would be comparable in scale “with graduating into a large recession,” the authors wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Every graduating senior in our high schools was admitted to a two- or four-year college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Going up the stairs were pictures of Mom from each grade, frozen in time, from kindergartner with a huge bow on her head to a graduating senior.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn




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