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postgraduate

[pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt] / poʊstˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt /
NOUN
alumnus
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NOUN
alumna
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The country's annual entrance exam season for engineering, medicine, universities and postgraduate admissions begins in December and runs through May or June.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Researchers from Macquarie University, led by Professor Ajay Narendra and postgraduate student Pranav Joshi, spent 10 days and nights in rainforest near Cooktown in far north Queensland searching for the spiders.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

When I completed my postgraduate studies in the late 1990s, I shelved my doctoral finance thesis in a dusty library.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

After high school in Rumson, N.J., he opted to do a postgraduate year.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Please forward us your resume, including previous research experience, graduate and postgraduate transcripts, and two letters of recommendation.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Across the river at the University of Manchester, the price increases by a pound for undergraduates and postgraduates, but those with a doctorate pay £57.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

UNLV, less than two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, has an enrollment of about 25,000 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates and doctoral candidates.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2023

CAS reduced the unidentified team leader’s funding and suspended him from supervising postgraduates for a year, according to the news report.

From Science Magazine May 24, 2023

He told me that many of his clients are postgraduates worried about their money situation, and a large debt balance is “a dark cloud that always follows you.”

From Slate Feb. 26, 2023

But the story of what the politicians, and those postgraduates of politics, the statesmen, have done for and against the fishermen of New England, is not that which I have to tell.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot




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