undergrad

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Recent Examples of undergrad Plenty of locals, alumni and other curious students have no doubt heard of DBU, but with an undergraduate enrollment of just over 2,800 in 2024, the private college is dwarfed in size by UT Austin, which enrolls over 42,000 undergrads as of the fall 2023 semester. Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025 The review cites a 2013 Florida State University study where 100 undergrads were given anagrams to work out. Justin Pot, Popular Science, 14 May 2025 Miller then started a chapter of Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom at Duke as an undergrad. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025 With picturesque Georgian Colonial revival architecture and 7,000 undergrads, the school, which is 20 minutes from Princeton, has 50 majors, including Business, Education, Engineering, Psychology, Nursing and Exercise Science. Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for undergrad
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Noun
  • With the air at its thickest and the nerves at their highest level, freshman relief pitcher Cambria Salmon walked in the first run and then threw a wild pitch for run number two, 2-0 Red Raiders.
    Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • But if a third game is required, the pressure will be on freshman Tate DeRias (2-3, 5.77).
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Watching and learning as a junior paid off when St. Laurence coach Teagan Walsh noticed.
    Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
  • Key Background Hernandez, a junior at California’s Jurupa Valley High School, shared first place in the high jump and triple jump and second place in the long jump events at Saturday’s state track and field competition.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • After a softer-than-expected debut last weekend, Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends is falling off 57 percent or more in it sophomore outing to $8.7 million from 3,859 sites for a muted domestic tally of $35.4 million through Sudany.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 7 June 2025
  • Asuma, a sophomore from Cherry, Minn., is the only returning player who got any playing time in Ben Johnson’s final year as head coach in 2024-25.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • For out-of-state and international students enrolling for the first time in 2026 or later, the fees will increase by $1,000 for an undergraduate engineering fee; computer/data science and artificial intelligence undergraduate fee and for a business undergraduate fee.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • Ella Liu, a math undergraduate at a university in the midwest, is visiting family in the southern city of Guangzhou before her summer research project in the US starts next month.
    Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • With the Tigers graduating four key seniors in 2024 and only two starting upperclassmen returning to the squad (Kara Daly and Crenshaw), there was plenty of room for Walker to take on a bigger role with the team.
    True Deck, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2025
  • Dart was a first-team All-SEC selection by the coaches and a finalist for the Manning Award (given to the top college football QB) and the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award (given to the nation’s top upperclassman QB).
    Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025

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