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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
The 10-point agreement obtained by USA TODAY, would commit participating schools to cap international undergraduate enrollment at 15% of the student body, freeze tuition over the next five years; and require applicants to take the SAT, ACT or other similar entry exams.
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Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Our university, like many in the United States, provides digital versions of a range of newspapers from around the globe, but usage statistics remain low—especially among undergraduates.
—Joshua Finnell, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
Silverman received an undergraduate degree from New York’s Ithaca College and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
The school's number of international undergraduate students stayed the same from the 2024-25 school year to the current one.
—David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2025
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Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Our university, like many in the United States, provides digital versions of a range of newspapers from around the globe, but usage statistics remain low—especially among undergraduates.
—Joshua Finnell, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
Silverman received an undergraduate degree from New York’s Ithaca College and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
The school's number of international undergraduate students stayed the same from the 2024-25 school year to the current one.
—David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduate
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Schools may apply for scholarships to cover student admission, transportation reimbursement, substitute teacher coverage and class program add-ons.—
Carin Schoppmeyer,
Arkansas Online,
12 Oct. 2025
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The town’s only high school was for whites only, forcing Black students to travel to Fort Worth to go to school.—
Ciara McCarthy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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Most legal scholars interpret this to mean that the President’s duty is to spend the money Congress appropriates, and that the President does not have the power to withhold funds.—
Andy Kroll,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Harvard’s Erica Chenoweth, director of the Non-Violent Action Lab and one of the world’s leading scholars of protest movements, has shown that peaceful resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent resistance.—
Nancy Gibbs,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduate. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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