undergrad
Americannoun
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undergrads
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Etymology
Origin of undergrad
By shortening
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For years, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the unit that includes the undergrad college, operated under the assumption that its budgets were essentially balanced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Sotomayor has long been an advocate for criminal defendants in her jurisprudence, and for her part, Jackson’s thesis in undergrad even covered coercive plea bargaining.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
I had gone to college — undergrad was free on a Pell Grant for low-income students — but borrowed money for graduate school.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Among its residents: the mother, father, grandmother and grandfather of an ASU undergrad.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026
“But believe me, being another guy with another NYU undergrad degree in acting, it’s like there’s a zillion of us actors here.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
My undergrads are rightly fearful about the climate crisis but working in community to find their way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The government will begin a new consultation in the autumn to look at options for a minimum English language requirement for prospective undergrads to access student finance.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
When the school held a recent trivia and bingo night, about 20 retirees attended alongside around the same number of Goucher undergrads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
More than 20% of undergrads at Harvard and Brown and 38% at Stanford have registered disabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
At that time, be it remembered, a large proportion of K. undergrads were in residence—now it is otherwise.
From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell
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