noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a graduation ceremony (= when you get your university degree )
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His proud parents attended his graduation ceremony.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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You actually think I joined the army because Mom wore a see-through blouse to my high school graduation !
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What if parents are in control of the event even though it is a high school graduation ?
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The week after her high school graduation they were married.
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My high school graduation was on a long and hot morning.
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For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
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Secondary programs are too easy. High school graduation standards must be stiffened.
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Ed had entered the Jesuit novitiate in the summer of 1975, just one month after his high school graduation .
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Forty-two states had raised high school graduation requirements.
■ NOUN
ceremony
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In their honour ... The University will award honourary degrees at the graduation ceremonies on 1 and 2 July.
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Can there be prayers at graduation ceremonies ?
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The Supreme Court, in its most recent decision, barred school officials from arranging prayers at graduation ceremonies .
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On Sunday, the 26 groups of veterans will march, one after another, to a stage for a graduation ceremony .
college
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The cape was my college graduation gown pinned up so he could walk, and now the pins were coming loose.
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Nor does parental support necessarily end with college graduation .
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He had been with the bank since college graduation .
rate
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Averages were dropping every year, as were graduation rates .
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High school graduation rates rose from around 13 percent in 1913 to almost 50 percent by 1940.
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Poverty depressed the black college-attendance rate , but so did low high school graduation rates and poor performance on standardized tests.
school
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You actually think I joined the army because Mom wore a see-through blouse to my high school graduation !
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High school graduation rates rose from around 13 percent in 1913 to almost 50 percent by 1940.
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What if parents are in control of the event even though it is a high school graduation ?
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The week after her high school graduation they were married.
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My high school graduation was on a long and hot morning.
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For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
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High school graduation standards must be stiffened.
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Ed had entered the Jesuit novitiate in the summer of 1975, just one month after his high school graduation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After graduation Jayne went to nursing school.
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We're going to Sarah's graduation on Sunday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Generations of students followed who at graduation were utterly unqualified to do anything except what their professors did-study the law.
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I sat him down in my one chair and started to quiz him on his five years since graduation .
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Oh, we have a real graduation .
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On graduation they received a university-accredited certificate.
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Seniors also compile a series of graduation portfolios and participate in a portfolio defense.
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Sheila Rowbotham had taken a different route after graduation from Oxford in 1962.
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Since his graduation he had not cultivated Learning.
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Yeah my graduation .. uh huh..