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diploma

[dih-ploh-muh] / dɪˈploʊ mə /


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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

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

The Nobel Prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal and a cheque for around $1.2 million, to be shared if there is more than one laureate in each discipline.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

That is well below the 3.6% rate for workers with just some college education, and 4.7% for people with a high-school diploma only.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

He rolls over and takes me by the shoulder, holding on tight like I’m graduating from high school and he’s handing me a diploma.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

Some go so far as to receive diplomas from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust, Rudman added—a level of accreditation that many full-time wine professionals don’t ever attain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

I shuffle through the papers—birth certificates, a marriage license, diplomas.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

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

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


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