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upperclassman

[uhp-er-klas-muhn, -klahs-] / ˈʌp ərˈklæs mən, -ˈklɑs- /
NOUN
undergraduate
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But he believes juniors and seniors in advanced classes should be allowed to use AI “because when you become an upperclassman, companies want to see you actually use these tools,” Anand said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Junior shortstop Dean Carpentier is another upperclassman who believed in Stankiewicz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

And, like everyone else trying to beat grown men, Lloyd’s Wildcats were heavy on upperclassman talent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

As an upperclassman, I recruited fellow Korean students to help me translate our school newspaper into Korean.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

He is Frank Volkheimer, an upperclassman, seventeen years old, a colossal boy from some boreal village, a legend among the younger cadets.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Irritated upperclassmen, the lore goes, attempted to stop the juvenile climbing with an unconventional weapon: grease.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Three of them — Abbrie Covarrubias, Kevin Takeuchi and Andrew Lamb — are upperclassmen who could have been tempted to transfer after they learned that they would be without a home field for two years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Conventional wisdom seemingly won the day with pollsters, who largely ranked teams with experienced upperclassmen quarterbacks ahead of those with better underlying numbers, but signal callers with less game day experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

The longest was more than four hours in 1995, a year when upperclassmen glued down the Dixie cup.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

The female upperclassmen did not approach me or make any real efforts to be my friend, so I only went to the meetings sporadically my first year.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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