Examples of bachelor in a Sentence
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
Connolly holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Arizona.
—The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2024
Butler is on track to get a bachelor’s degree in business with an emphasis in entrepreneurship.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
Software developers typically hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software development or other related fields.
—Goldie Chan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
Deeds has a bachelor’s degree in news-editorial journalism from the University of Nebraska.
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 28 Mar. 2024
Francis, who was born at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, earned a bachelor’s degree in Government & Politics with a minor in Leadership from the University of Maryland.
—Jim Varsallone, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
The shooting left deep emotional scars, but Ms. Banks continued on, receiving a bachelor’s degree in history in 1982.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
In Connecticut, early educators with a bachelor’s degree are paid 31.3% less than their colleagues in the K-8 system, according to the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
The gap between those with a post-bachelor’s education and those with a high school diploma or less was similar, at 6% and 22%, respectively.
—Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2022
Looks like someone's ready to enter the post-bachelor period of his life.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 13 June 2022
So, to give himself a chance at medical school, Tatum enrolled in a post-bachelor’s pre-medicine program at Rutgers University-Newark.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2022
The bachelor elephant group at Noah's Ark plays a key supporting role serving wider African Elephant conservation efforts as an important part of the European Endangered Species Programme.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
Pumpkin, who lost her elderly partner, convinced Harris to forego his bachelor ways in the name of love.
—Mallory Hughes, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
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Word History
Noun
Middle English bacheler "knight lacking retainers, squire, young man (especially an unmarried one), person holding the lowest university degree," borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Medieval Latin *baccalāris, variant of baccalārius, bachelārius "serf without land living in the lord's household, vassal lacking a fief, knight without retainers, young clerk, student," of obscure origin
Adjective
attributive use of bachelor entry 1
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Adjective
1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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