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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
While out on the campaign trail for student body president as a junior in 1974, Kempthorne also met his future wife, Patricia, when the two were undergraduates in Moscow.
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Idaho Statesman, 25 Apr. 2026
Altogether at the Division II and Division III levels, according to the most recent federal data, 107 out of ~700 colleges feature student bodies where at least 44% of undergraduates are athletes.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 24 Apr. 2026
Oral exams are not traditionally part of the modern American undergraduate system, unlike certain European universities.
—Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
During her time as an undergraduate, Meade worked for Santa Ana College and the Rancho Santiago Community College District in Auxiliary Services and Administrative Services.
—Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
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Idaho Statesman, 25 Apr. 2026
Altogether at the Division II and Division III levels, according to the most recent federal data, 107 out of ~700 colleges feature student bodies where at least 44% of undergraduates are athletes.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 24 Apr. 2026
Oral exams are not traditionally part of the modern American undergraduate system, unlike certain European universities.
—Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
During her time as an undergraduate, Meade worked for Santa Ana College and the Rancho Santiago Community College District in Auxiliary Services and Administrative Services.
—Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduate
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The Zion Phelps story is going to be told over and over at Loyola High to show students what can happen when someone discovers potential and decides to take a chance to bring it out.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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In 2014, the neuroscientist Anat Arzi was a graduate student at the Weizmann Institute of Science.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Deang becomes the third transfer to commit to Boise State this spring, alongside postgraduate point guard Damari Wheeler-Thomas from North Dakota State and redshirt sophomore forward Jerquarius Stanback from Alabama State.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Apr. 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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Van Bendegem, who would become a leading scholar on ultrafinitist logic, later addressed these concerns by considering a geometry in which a line or curve has width and is both finite and finitely divisible.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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Ted Kaptchuk, an acupuncturist and leading scholar of the placebo effect, has described this phenomenon in detail.—
Hannah Kerman,
STAT,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergraduate. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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