postcollege
- a word derived from college.
Example Sentences
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Yet her postcollege stint in the experimental theater scene always stuck with her, she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
Dear Prudence, After six months of searching and working in a restaurant, my sister finally got her first real postcollege job.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2018
In the memoir Christgau’s childhood, college and early postcollege years, plus attendant discursions—there are lots—precede his union with Dibbell.
From Time ● Feb. 24, 2015
Generally defined by wandering exposition and comedic portraits of postcollege drifters, mumblecore gained little mainstream recognition, possibly because many of its constituencies resisted.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010
After a few postcollege years in Boston, he hightailed it back to the only city in America he deems worth living in and found an affordable but tiny basement apartment before the rents went sky-high.
From Time Magazine Archive
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