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a scheme of rank or order
had a graduation of testing levels into which to divide the students
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Recent Examples of graduation
The trio can frequently be seen together on social media, spending holidays together, vacationing and celebrating momentous occasions including her 2022 middle school graduation.
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
In between checking in on the new collection’s progress, the film offers a fairly cursory overview of Jacobs’ career to date, beginning with his graduation from New York’s Parsons School of Design in the mid-Eighties.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
As Rosie progressed through high school, Chelle felt the urgency to find her child a place to work, post-graduation, that was safe, fun, rewarding and compatible with her abilities—no easy task.
—Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
Xaverian lost running back and linebacker Vincent Busa to graduation, but the Hawks welcome back most of their other skilled position stars.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
In between checking in on the new collection’s progress, the film offers a fairly cursory overview of Jacobs’ career to date, beginning with his graduation from New York’s Parsons School of Design in the mid-Eighties.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
As Rosie progressed through high school, Chelle felt the urgency to find her child a place to work, post-graduation, that was safe, fun, rewarding and compatible with her abilities—no easy task.
—Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
Xaverian lost running back and linebacker Vincent Busa to graduation, but the Hawks welcome back most of their other skilled position stars.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graduation
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Taylor and Wasserman both said Milwaukee County could not single-handedly solve the entire state's arts funding problem and that responsibility for Milwaukee's ranking lies in the state Legislature.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Financially, Mexico also fares well, though safety and air quality continue to drag down its overall Quality of Life ranking.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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As alternatives start to move down the investing ladder, from institutions to family offices and eventually to retail investors, concerns are growing that retail investors would be putting a portion of their retirement savings into less liquid assets.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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For most of medical history, doctors scaled that ladder alone while patients remained at the bottom.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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When the hierarchy isn’t clear, visitors waste energy figuring out where to go instead of engaging with your content.—
Goran Paun,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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See how far the Packers moved up the league's hierarchy.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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Opponents of the idea see a hand on the scale and a new label on a socialist effort to redistribute wealth and opportunity randomly and haphazardly without a thought as to possible consequences.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Their results mark a step toward highly efficient solar panels that can be manufactured at an industrial scale.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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Similar complaints were made in the 1990s and 2000s building boom that led to a series of functional stadia springing up across the UK, usually complete with bare breeze block walls that gave a pre-match pint on the concourse all the appeal of an evening spent down the local multi-story car park.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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That's why, for example, the US government has funded a series of Landsat satellites since 1972 to create an uninterrupted data catalog illustrating changes in global land use.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Graduation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graduation. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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