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
Walter Loeb, Forbes, 16 June 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
Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
In fact, less than 20% of all international students receive grant funding from a federal source, and most of that goes to postgraduates doing advanced research.
—Barnet Sherman, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Academia is important for a few reasons; this community generates studies that influence company actions or consumer choices and also often awakens young people to be creative in their postgraduate years.
—Walter Loeb, Forbes, 16 June 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
One person was on a postgraduate professional training visa after attending a Los Angeles campus, another student attends an Orange County university and the third student attends an Inland Empire campus.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
In fact, less than 20% of all international students receive grant funding from a federal source, and most of that goes to postgraduates doing advanced research.
—Barnet Sherman, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postgraduate
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The job market, once anchored by long-term employment and financial benefits, is now dominated by gig work, algorithmic shifts and graduate unemployment.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Two graduate students, Alice and Peter, must travel to hell in order to save their professor’s soul, and yes, there’s a bit of will-they-or-won’t-they romance.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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As undergraduates at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Lee Ray Sheng and Ye Anran joined forces in 2020 to launch Raydy Beehoon, a rice noodles business operated out of the campus canteen.—
Cat Wang,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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England’s University of Oxford shared that a former undergraduate recently returned three library books that were checked out two decades ago.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
People.com,
10 May 2025
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Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.—
Anna Commander
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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This philosophical underpinning drives the company beyond mere resurrection spectacles — a critique often levied by academic skeptics following the company’s milestone de-extinction announcement.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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As the University of Maryland's graduating class prepares to leap into the next stage of life, Kermit the Frog left the students with a message of connection and love.—
Kiersten Hacker,
Baltimore Sun,
23 May 2025
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In October 2019, the mother of four — who shares North West, 11, Saint West, 9, Chicago West, 7, and Psalm West, 6, with ex-husband Kanye West — dressed as the fictional Harvard law school student for Halloween.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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“Postgraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postgraduate. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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