as in ladder
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 funding cuts have set back efforts to train 24 school psychology graduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who were set to work in high-need schools after graduation.
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Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
But these pens all had very serious limitations, and fountain pens were also so expensive they were often given as presents to mark important occasions like school graduations.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
Back in May, Zeta-Jones, 56, and Douglas, 81, who also share son Dylan, 25, celebrated Carys’ graduation from Brown University after achieving a degree in Film and International Relations.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Others are easily Googleable, but harmless questions asking when graduation is, if there are printing services on campus and if university health services will treat a sinus infection.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
But these pens all had very serious limitations, and fountain pens were also so expensive they were often given as presents to mark important occasions like school graduations.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
Back in May, Zeta-Jones, 56, and Douglas, 81, who also share son Dylan, 25, celebrated Carys’ graduation from Brown University after achieving a degree in Film and International Relations.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Others are easily Googleable, but harmless questions asking when graduation is, if there are printing services on campus and if university health services will treat a sinus infection.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graduation
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The ladder is made up of four individual nucleic acids, like the letters that make up words in a book, strung together in long chains that spell out the instructions for proteins.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Cybertrucks are each equipped with shotguns, shields, and ladders — signaling a move toward modernization in policing.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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However, for executives under pressure to boost productivity at lower costs—and especially for those with a penchant for cutting—the appeal of flattening the hierarchy is obvious.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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At the story’s center is Musashi, a boy raised by dogs at the bottom of society’s hierarchy, who teams up with Kikuchiyo, a shrewd producer, and Leo, an inventive genius, to fight their way to the top.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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Category 5 is the highest ranking on the hurricane center's Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, reserved for hurricanes with winds of 157 mph or greater.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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The Miami Hurricanes’ 26-20 overtime loss to the SMU Mustangs on Saturday unsurprisingly resulted in a massive drop in their ranking in the AP top 25 poll.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
2 Nov. 2025
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If negative emissions technologies can indeed attain consequential scale, should they be pressed into the service of life extension for fossil capital?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Today, those physical infrastructure requirements—the chips and the data centers behind them—operate on a staggering scale, with energy needs measured in gigawatts.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Jones, who was a regular on the NBC sketch series from 2014 to 2019, was one of the dozens of former cast members who descended on Studio 8H for the epic evening.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Nov. 2025
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Between the four books, Huang's Twisted series has nearly 4 million ratings on Goodreads, and the series is immensely popular on Booktok and Bookstagram.—
Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Graduation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graduation. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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