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a person enrolled in a college or university who has not yet earned a degree
a group of college undergraduates
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Recent Examples of undergraduate
Applications to San Jose State University’s software engineering master’s program fell 40% for the coming school year, and undergraduate applications dropped 16%, said Sheryl Ehrman, dean of the school’s College of Engineering.
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Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2026
According to her LinkedIn, Slater attended undergraduate school at Carroll University in Waukesha and Mississippi State University.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Agents had with them a missing child bulletin for a 5-year-old girl, but arrested the undergraduate student, according to the borough president, Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
Aghayeva describes herself as a neuroscience researcher and is pursuing an undergraduate degree in neurobiology and behavior and political science, according to her LinkedIn account.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
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Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2026
According to her LinkedIn, Slater attended undergraduate school at Carroll University in Waukesha and Mississippi State University.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Agents had with them a missing child bulletin for a 5-year-old girl, but arrested the undergraduate student, according to the borough president, Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
Aghayeva describes herself as a neuroscience researcher and is pursuing an undergraduate degree in neurobiology and behavior and political science, according to her LinkedIn account.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduate
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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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If the paths for getting there—which may include postgraduate study in a doctoral program or professional school—are diminishing, then college itself will follow suit.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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Give me the grizzled wisdom and experience of someone in their 50s or 60s; give me Esther Perel and Orna Guralnik; give me someone with a postgraduate certificate in relationship counseling at the very least.—
Zing Tsjeng,
Vogue,
26 Dec. 2025
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Her grandfather, the Buddhist scholar and Tibet House co-founder Robert Thurman, began the night with praise for the artists and a sermon on the right of everyone to be happy.—
Hillel Italie,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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Salerno suggests that several documents in the first few hundred years after Michelangelo's death correctly attribute the work to the artist but that in 1984 a scholar debunked it, erroneously in her view, and it has remained wrongly attributed ever since.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduate. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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