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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
For example, by accepting undergraduates with high GPAs and many advanced courses, students could lessen their undergraduate requirements and enter medical school sooner.
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Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
The center will also support students through research programs for undergraduates and high schoolers, plus nursing scholarships.
—Florida International University, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
About 1,500 undergraduates were enrolled at Hartford as of the fall of 2024.
UConn already planned its first residence hall in Hartford on Pratt Street for up to 200 — to be completed by the fall of 2026.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025
In the early 2000s, one of Ferguson’s investigative interns at Channel 5 was a Harvard University undergraduate named Pete Buttigieg.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
The center will also support students through research programs for undergraduates and high schoolers, plus nursing scholarships.
—Florida International University, Miami Herald, 9 June 2025
About 1,500 undergraduates were enrolled at Hartford as of the fall of 2024.
UConn already planned its first residence hall in Hartford on Pratt Street for up to 200 — to be completed by the fall of 2026.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025
In the early 2000s, one of Ferguson’s investigative interns at Channel 5 was a Harvard University undergraduate named Pete Buttigieg.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduate
Noun
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The person behind the schoolboy video, which defended Duterte, claimed to the news agency that the views shared were collected from real students.—
Cecilia Hult,
Fortune,
28 June 2025
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At the center of Friday's case was the Montgomery County, Md., school system, the most religiously diverse county in the nation, with 160,000 students of nearly all faiths.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
27 June 2025
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These PhDs’ postgraduate employment rate is greater than those graduating with bachelor’s degrees in similar fields.—
Alexandra Sternlicht,
Fortune,
25 June 2025
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Born in 1963, Aoki was professionally trained at the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University in Tokyo before completing a postgraduate course at the University’s Graduate School of Art and Design.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
29 May 2025
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The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself).—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
30 June 2025
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And some are just for the most obsessive Fabs scholars.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
29 June 2025
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduate. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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