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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
Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh was introduced to this classical South Asian storytelling dance while an undergraduate at San Francisco State in the mid-1990s.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
But the campaign also gives them an opportunity to reflect back on their undergraduate years — and to offer some guidance for a new generation of college students who are just now getting to campus.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
And last year, an undergraduate student disproved a long-standing conjecture about the minimum amount of time needed to find a specific item in a hash table that’s almost full.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
Overall, community colleges added 173,000 undergraduate students last fall, nearly double the number of new students at public four-year colleges.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
But the campaign also gives them an opportunity to reflect back on their undergraduate years — and to offer some guidance for a new generation of college students who are just now getting to campus.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
And last year, an undergraduate student disproved a long-standing conjecture about the minimum amount of time needed to find a specific item in a hash table that’s almost full.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
Overall, community colleges added 173,000 undergraduate students last fall, nearly double the number of new students at public four-year colleges.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduate
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Over the last two weeks, students at schools across Minnesota have held walkouts in protest of the immigration operation and Good's killing.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
23 Jan. 2026
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As Francisco explained, the Spring Fest is an annual open house in the spring that allows students to discover a wide range of resources.—
Staff report,
Daily News,
23 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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As part of the push to absorb more employment, Beijing raised the eligibility age cap by three years to 38 for those with postgraduate degrees and 43 for those with PhD degrees, further increasing the candidate pool.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
16 Dec. 2025
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Strategy scholars use related language when discussing foresight, sensemaking, and early awareness.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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In 1972, filmmaker William Greaves reconvened a group of artists and luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance including musicians, playwrights, poets and scholars at Duke Ellington’s townhouse for an afternoon of reminiscing and rumination.—
Vanessa Franko,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduate. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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