collegian

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Recent Examples of collegian Chapman, who turns 32 in April, has played only 16 games at shortstop as a collegian and professional, including four with the Oakland A’s in 2020-21. Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 6 Dec. 2024 Multiple collegians who played their 2023 seasons would be invited to try out. Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024 Corbin Burnes – The Orioles ace never played for the A’s, but starred as a collegian a couple miles away in Moraga at Saint Mary’s. Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024 As a collegian at San Jose State, Wright, who ran track with the Spartans, was once clocked at 9.6 seconds in the 100-meter dash. Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 30 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for collegian
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Noun
  • As undergraduates at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Lee Ray Sheng and Ye Anran joined forces in 2020 to launch Raydy Beehoon, a rice noodles business operated out of the campus canteen.
    Cat Wang, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • England’s University of Oxford shared that a former undergraduate recently returned three library books that were checked out two decades ago.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • Long holiday weekends are ideal for travel because many people have an extra day off work and students are off from school.
    Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • In October 2019, the mother of four — who shares North West, 11, Saint West, 9, Chicago West, 7, and Psalm West, 6, with ex-husband Kanye West — dressed as the fictional Harvard law school student for Halloween.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Means is a holistic medicine doctor and wellness influencer Means’ MD postgraduate license was granted in 2014 but shifted to inactive status in 2019, per the Los Angeles Times.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 8 May 2025
  • Among Republicans with postgraduate degrees, 81 percent approved of the court.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his passion for each extends to his writing.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
  • Before Wednesday’s hearing, U.S. attorneys argued that Khan Suri’s case should be moved from Virginia to Texas because the petition was filed after the scholar had already left the state.
    Olivia Diaz, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • This requirement means whatever challenges authors bring up, including those that could keep the protagonists apart, have to be resolved by the time readers turn the last page.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
  • Hendrix, for one, is childless by choice, which offers readers alternatives for what happiness can look like.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The four-part series, which explores complex issues such as toxic masculinity and the dangers of online radicalization, is set to be made freely accessible to secondary school pupils through a partnership between Netflix and the Into Film+ streaming service.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 8 May 2025
  • Between 2008 and 2018, the amount of funding available per pupil in traditional public schools substantially declined, while funding for charters schools increased, leaving public schools to try to maintain the same services but with fewer resources.
    Derek W. Black, The Conversation, 6 May 2025

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“Collegian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collegian. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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