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- noun Plural form of
graduate . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
graduate .
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Examples
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My advice to the graduates is to also ignore such nonsense today.
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Their work, in public policy planning, fundamental (my own path) or applied sciences, etc., is probably of far more public value than the higher-salaried private sector jobs that talented graduates from a few years ago might have taken.
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We might also ask ourselves if general liberal-arts graduates from the same universities will be so lucky.
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You can see where this argument leads: claims that the quality of graduates is dropping may be better explained either by the quality of the jobs on offer (advertising an entry-level job to graduates is not going to attract the best candidates) or by the minimum requirements (a degree).
How do you define an under-utilised graduate? Jonathan 2009
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Murkowski has tried to make an issue of Miller's seeming abandonment of the "gentleman" part of the "officer and gentleman" training ingrained in graduates of the U.S.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Joe Miller Admits To Lying, But Do Alaskans Care? AlaskaDispatch.com 2010
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We might also ask ourselves if general liberal-arts graduates from the same universities will be so lucky.
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And when he graduates from the grad school he can go “Nyah, Nyah” at BYU.
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He finds dignity for himself in pretending the job is training for the day when he finally graduates from the Academy (if he ever gets into it to begin with) and he consoles himself at the end of every shift with the knowledge that he has put in a good day's work, and the script allows him that much dignity.
What work is. A review of Paul Blart: Mall Cop by way of a gigantic spoiler 2009
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We might also ask ourselves if general liberal-arts graduates from the same universities will be so lucky.
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However, that city was overrun with graduates from the law school, most of whom graduated with a better record than she had.
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