graduate school
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of graduate school
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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“You could be in graduate school getting a master’s degree in history and borrow $100,000 a year for three years and you were never going to pay that back,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Already, at least two graduate school programs in California, including the UC Irvine graduate business school, have lowered costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
In graduate school he studied with scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project, and he worried that supporting nuclear energy could lead to the proliferation of weapons.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
The college and graduate school he said he had attended told the agent they had never heard of him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
For years after graduate school, she wrote down poet under profession in questionnaires and income tax forms, and later amended it to writer-slash-teacher.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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