as in student
a person enrolled in a college or university who has not yet earned a degree
a group of college undergraduates
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Recent Examples of undergraduate
And two days later, Kevin would be back in class, just another undergraduate studying for exams.
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Ellen Barry, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
And while much of the focus has been on undergraduates, levels of student loan debt among those receiving master’s degrees is a more severe issue.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 28 Dec. 2024
The cost to attend CU Boulder for an in-state undergraduate is about $35,000 a year — including tuition, room and board, and books — before any scholarships or financial aid are applied.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
Roughly 13,000 students, including about 9,000 undergraduates, attend school on the 1,265-acre campus.
—Lauren Merola, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Ellen Barry, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
And while much of the focus has been on undergraduates, levels of student loan debt among those receiving master’s degrees is a more severe issue.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 28 Dec. 2024
The cost to attend CU Boulder for an in-state undergraduate is about $35,000 a year — including tuition, room and board, and books — before any scholarships or financial aid are applied.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
Roughly 13,000 students, including about 9,000 undergraduates, attend school on the 1,265-acre campus.
—Lauren Merola, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduate
Noun
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The footage shows the students navigating Freedom of Information Act requests, reading documents, engaging public figures and posing better and better questions.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Williams would show up at a high school in his dress uniform and pick out the most charismatic student.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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An Illinois native, a young White ditched a postgraduate program at Harvard to follow his lover to New York—a city he’s called home since 1962.—
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1 Feb. 2025
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The logline: Prime Target features a brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall, The White Lotus), on the verge of a major breakthrough.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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This month, that work is being celebrated by the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, the advocacy organization founded by the father of Black History Month, scholar Carter G. Woodson.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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Typically, such studies are led by a prominent person of national distinction or a renowned scholar, and are carried out by a panel of national experts from academia, industry, the public sector and nongovernmental organizations.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduate. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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