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undergraduate

[uhn-der-graj-oo-it, -ayt] / ˌʌn dərˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt /


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They need to protect undergraduate instruction from the harmful effects of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

He began that manuscript, which takes place on the reservation, as an undergraduate at Princeton, in Toni Morrison’s long-fiction workshop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Pella, the 28-year-old daughter of the late Westish president, has completed her undergraduate studies in literature—a bad first marriage meant she started college belatedly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, undergraduate computer-science enrollment rose for nine straight years, to 672 students in 2024 from 291 students in 2015, according to data published by the university.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Anyway he related long pointless anecdotes of his undergraduate days, speaking familiarly of dead and departed professors by their first names, usually incorrect ones.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Chandrasekaran and Raman met in 1999, when they were both undergraduates at Harvard University.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Grinnell College, with an undergraduates population of 1,700, has also seen softening demand in the major since enrollment peaked in 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

About a third of its 16,000 undergraduates are in fraternities or sororities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Signers would cap international undergraduates at 15%, require the SAT or ACT and freeze tuition for five years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Moira told me once that it used to be where the undergraduates ate, in the earlier days of the university.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood


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