mature student
Britishnoun
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Calocane was a mature student at the University of Nottingham when he became mentally unwell, and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in July 2020.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Yusuf, a mature student eight years in recovery, is the peer manager.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2023
Ms Lajoie was an experienced music industry executive before she began a degree in human, social and political sciences as a mature student at Cambridge's Hughes Hall in 2021.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2023
“I’m a mature student in a hurry,” she told him.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022
In the same sense the more mature student will receive most important benefit, when he shuts his book, and goes forth in the field, and ruminates on what he has read.
From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William
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