as in postgraduate
of or relating to schooling done after earning a bachelor's degree
The team is conducting graduate research on the effects of climate change. She plans to begin graduate school in the fall.
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Half of the receptions by graduate wide receiver Michael Fitzgerald (6-100, 3 TD) have gone for touchdowns.
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Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
Cora Ruiz is a graduate student in Jois’s Security, Privacy and Cryptographic Engineering Lab at City College.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2025
Case was a member of Kansas’ 2008 NCAA title team and after graduation was on the KU staff while taking graduate courses for the 2008-09 season.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2025
Their venture started in 1961, when Arthur Freeman, then a graduate student of Elizabethan drama at Harvard University, began acquiring sources on John Payne Collier.
—Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
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Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
Cora Ruiz is a graduate student in Jois’s Security, Privacy and Cryptographic Engineering Lab at City College.
—Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2025
Case was a member of Kansas’ 2008 NCAA title team and after graduation was on the KU staff while taking graduate courses for the 2008-09 season.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2025
Their venture started in 1961, when Arthur Freeman, then a graduate student of Elizabethan drama at Harvard University, began acquiring sources on John Payne Collier.
—Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graduate
postgraduate
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In addition to the crown and new title, Donegan won more than $70,000 in scholarships through the Miss America program, which will help finance her undergraduate and postgraduate education.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Letícia Paul, who had recently earned her law degree and was pursuing postgraduate studies in real estate and business law, went into anaphylactic shock moments after receiving an iodinated contrast dye, Jam Press reported.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Graduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graduate. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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