Example Sentences

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Just 5% of job-seeking M.B.A.s graduating from Duke then were still looking for work three months postgraduation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Four teens in 1962 California get a final, nostalgic glimpse of innocence before facing their postgraduation lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019

I didn’t go on the monthlong postgraduation trip to Asia because I had to work to save up for grad school.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

A college English major, he didn't commit to science until he landed a postgraduation job as a research technician at UC San Diego, where his wife was starting medical school.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2017

A postgraduation party took us to Harpswell, about an hour from Lewiston.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2013