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[graj-oo-it, -eyt, graj-oo-eyt] / ˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈgrædʒ uˌeɪt /






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WSJ | Buy Side: Grad Plus loans are disappearing—here’s how to pay for graduate school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Cornell primarily contributes graduate students, along with an increasing number of undergraduates, who spend 10 weeks each summer working at the site.

From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026

That is no longer the case since Ravi, an amiable but steely 58-year-old Harvard graduate, became secretary of the governing board.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Democrat Mikie Sherrill, an Annapolis graduate, won 2025’s race for New Jersey governor partly by flipping some areas where Trump won in 2024.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

Now he’d been invited to Harvard to speak to the graduate students of Henry Kissinger, a professor of international relations.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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