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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He was required reading for decades of graduate students—and the bolder undergraduates.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2024
Five graduate students from the University of Arkansas got $5,000 each, and five undergraduate students, including four from the Fayetteville campus and one from the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, got $2,500 grants.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
Earlier this year, a group of graduate students from UC Berkeley traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Winter and visit the Sepulveda Basin, where their professor, Matt Kondolf, assigned them to analyze how to go about restoring this stretch of the river.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
One key difference between graduate students and AI is that graduate students learn.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2024
Five graduate students from the University of Arkansas got $5,000 each, and five undergraduate students, including four from the Fayetteville campus and one from the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, got $2,500 grants.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
Earlier this year, a group of graduate students from UC Berkeley traveled to Los Angeles to meet with Winter and visit the Sepulveda Basin, where their professor, Matt Kondolf, assigned them to analyze how to go about restoring this stretch of the river.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
One key difference between graduate students and AI is that graduate students learn.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Graduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graduate. Accessed 14 Dec. 2024.
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