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Recent Examples of graduations
Young Thug's plea deal As part of his plea deal, Young Thug must stay away from the metro Atlanta area — as defined by the census — for the first 10 years of his probation, except for weddings, funerals, graduations, or a serious illness of an immediate family member.
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Dan Raby, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Arias is currently regarded as the top position player prospect in the Red Sox organization following the graduations of Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer and Kristian Campbell.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Though the song is most often associated with New Year’s and the December holidays, it is often also played at graduations, retirements, funerals and other events that mark the end of something.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Miami celebrated baptisms and birthdays there as well as confirmations and graduations and baby and bridal showers.
—Miami Herald, 22 Dec. 2025
It’s been made to fit everything from graduations to funerals.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025
Still, some students and parents are riding the high of Thursday’s graduations, and are hopeful that Gaza’s schools and universities will soon be rebuilt.
—Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Stachel even skips all of his school graduations through the years so as not to be seen publicly with him.
—Deborah Wilker, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
But these pens all had very serious limitations, and fountain pens were also so expensive they were often given as presents to mark important occasions like school graduations.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graduations
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The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.—
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With a plot reminiscent of Pride and Prejudice, Behind Five Willows explores what happens when a young woman from a poor family and a wealthy, respectable son of a noble decide to challenge government censorship and the strict social hierarchies that shape their lives.—
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First responders brought ladders to help people off the train cars and predicted that the evacuation could take up to two hours.—
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For Gen Z, that could mean inventing new career paths, blending skills across disciplines, or building opportunities rather than waiting for traditional ladders to reappear.—
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Eighteen months after the last group battle with Vecna in the Abyss in the series finale, Jonathan (Heaton), Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery) and Robin (Maya Hawke) reunite on a rooftop for a tearful catch-up.—
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Dead and Company was just in San Francisco in August, playing a series of concerts in Golden Gate Park.—
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The local guides immediately stepped in, got off the boat and attempted to immobilize the snake so that Fry and Smith would be able to take one of its scales for their snake genetics study.—
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Body Scan 2 Withings, which has been making connected scales since 2009, announced an upgrade at CES 2026.—
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“Graduations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graduations. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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