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
  • Listen to this article GAINESVILLE — Florida freshman slugger Taylor Shumaker ended her weekend slump in record-setting fashion but not before shortstop Rylee Holtorf showed why the Gators will be a tough out during the Women’s College World Series.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2025
  • Arkansas stayed with the hot hand of freshman right-hander Payton Burnham, who pitched a shutout in a 4-0 victory Saturday.
    Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Fisher, the No. 25 prospect in the Class of 2025, helped lead IMG Academy to its first appearance in the girls’ Chipotle Nationals championship as a junior in 2024.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2025
  • Harvard student body co-president Abdullah Shahid Sial, a rising junior, had flown to Tokyo for a conference when the news broke.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • This new generation of Patriots will go as far as sophomore QB Drake Maye can take them.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 27 May 2025
  • The Longhorns won two of three against the Gators during the regular season, but sophomore ace Keagan Rothrock also sat out the series with an injury.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 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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“Undergrad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undergrad. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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