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graduation

[ graj-oo-ey-shuhn ]

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noun

graduation

/ ˌɡrædjʊˈeɪʃən /

the act of graduating or the state of being graduated
the ceremony at which school or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
a mark or division or all the marks or divisions that indicate measure on an instrument or vessel

1375–1425; late Middle English graduacion < Medieval Latin graduātiōn- (stem of graduātiō ). See graduate, -ion

The NYPD and his duties required him to miss the graduation on December 20.

On-time graduation (10%): Percentage of students who graduate within four years (NCES).

Kessler says they had stopped dating before their graduation in 2007 and that he had played no part in her pregnancy.

They dated through high school, then married after graduation.

A few days after graduation from college, I rushed back to Zimbabwe.

Helen Ervin's life in a private school for girls at San Francisco had been uneventful until her graduation.

Phœbe's graduation from the Greenwald High School was her red-letter day.

Since the power thus gradually percolates, a continuity and graduation of superiority and inferiority must develop itself.

Right after graduation, he was made second lieutenant of Engineers and for some time he was busy looking after our coast defenses.

It was in the summer after my graduation that I first became aware that my own feelings were undergoing a change.

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