as in graduate
of or relating to studies done after earning a bachelor's degree or other degree
After college, she spent her first postgraduate year studying abroad.
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Recent Examples of postgraduate
Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
The University of California and 48,000 people who work as teachers and researchers while earning postgraduate degrees came to a tentative labor agreement Friday, both sides announced.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2022
Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Kitagawa thanked his family, colleagues, students and fellow postgraduate researchers at a news conference at Kyoto University.
—Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, Ms. Hager showed a postgraduate appetite for media ventures on her terms.
—Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
The University of California and 48,000 people who work as teachers and researchers while earning postgraduate degrees came to a tentative labor agreement Friday, both sides announced.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2022
Noun
Today, most members of the Chinese elite have a background in management, while the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and a postgraduate degree in law — the Marxist version.
—Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Kitagawa thanked his family, colleagues, students and fellow postgraduate researchers at a news conference at Kyoto University.
—Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postgraduate
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The senior, who holds seven scholarship offers, announced his commitment to do a post-graduate year at Avon Old Farms in Connecticut.—
Jack Murray,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2026
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The Pentagon’s Tuition Assistance Program covered tuition at these universities for the military, taking graduate courses and degrees to improve their skills but that’s now been completely eliminated.—
Stanley S. Litow,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
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This is more of a normal conservative idea; that the availability of student loans has encouraged universities to offer more low-quality programs at the undergraduate and graduate level which don’t help students.—
Brendan Cantwell,
The Conversation,
11 Mar. 2026
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And within a few weeks, a second-year undergraduate at the University of Oxford named Tanupat (Paul) Trakulthongchai built on Rosenfeld’s ideas to prove it for nine and 10 runners.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Mar. 2026
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For professionals who work with contracts, reports, invoices, or academic documents, PDF Agile consolidates essential PDF functions into a single lifetime license without ongoing subscription fees.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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They are left scarred and live on quietly together as their academic careers fall apart.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
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Justin Clarke-Samuel, a 41-year-old Briton who performs rap music as Ghetts, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and barred from driving for 17 years for killing a 20-year-old Nepali student in an October 2025 hit-and-run in London.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Mar. 2026
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Look no further than your typical classroom, where a book being passionately taught by a professor is undoubtedly being judged as utterly meaningless by at least one of their students.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Postgraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postgraduate. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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