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

All of these incidents are shocking and appalling—and they stand in sharp contrast to the appeals for intellectual and emotional safety that have increasingly characterized life on college campuses, even in postcollege progressive spaces.

From Slate • May 3, 2024

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

A Theory of Archetypal Ingénues and Third-Wave Feminists in Their Youth“Pretty Woman” and “Thelma and Louise” flanked my first postcollege year like a couple of quick-draw gunfighters in a Wild West showdown.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2011

They were more likely to have done postcollege work and had an average of five more years of teaching experience.

From Time Magazine Archive