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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 undergraduates
This marks a big increase from the 340,000 Hispanic undergraduates who attended an HSI in 1995.
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Joseph Morales, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
In the face of declining new student enrollment, Duval said the university should instead focus on beefing up its endowment and attracting undergraduates.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
The window will be for undergraduates and graduate transfers.
—Arkansas Online, 8 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
And that was the birth of really thinking about the Master's in computer science for people who didn't study computer science as undergraduates.
—Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
More recently Glamour has honored outstanding community college students of all ages, undergraduates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), community college students of all ages, college athletes, and aspiring women in STEM.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2025
In fall 2024, the university began requiring all undergraduates to take a sustainability course.
—Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
In 2002, about a quarter of the arriving undergraduates at the University of South Carolina came from outside the state; now roughly half of them do.
—Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Joseph Morales, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
In the face of declining new student enrollment, Duval said the university should instead focus on beefing up its endowment and attracting undergraduates.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2025
The window will be for undergraduates and graduate transfers.
—Arkansas Online, 8 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
And that was the birth of really thinking about the Master's in computer science for people who didn't study computer science as undergraduates.
—Laura Isensee, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
More recently Glamour has honored outstanding community college students of all ages, undergraduates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), community college students of all ages, college athletes, and aspiring women in STEM.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 23 Sep. 2025
In fall 2024, the university began requiring all undergraduates to take a sustainability course.
—Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
In 2002, about a quarter of the arriving undergraduates at the University of South Carolina came from outside the state; now roughly half of them do.
—Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduates
Noun
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However, when the students reached the platform the second time, Dylan had vanished.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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On the afternoon of April 15, several students, including the Kamos’ son, were in the school’s auditorium for a rehearsal for the school play.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 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,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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Yet Trump’s mercurial nature has given other presidential scholars, who cited the president’s six-month journey to even suggest that Vance and Rubio were in the running to succeed him, some hesitancy.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Oct. 2025
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And the coach and his pupils deserve blame, even if some of the calls were atrocious (the pass interference at the end of the Giants game on Riley Moss tops the list).—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
23 Oct. 2025
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One by one, with sweaty palms and cracking adolescent voices, the pupils rose and read.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Undergraduates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduates. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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