An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred.
Synonyms
Examples for "commencement"
Examples for "commencement"
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Since the commencement of the debate eighteen members had addressed the House.
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The debate eventually began about 20 minutes after the scheduled commencement time.
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M. Thiers arrives at the commencement of the second; which makes 34.
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The first took place before his commencement address at Arizona State University.
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It was now three weeks since the commencement of this unaccountable state.
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After high school graduation, however, many students stop leaving a paper trail.
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PROBLEM: My daughter moved to Germany after graduation and has settled there.
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Kansas State topped the list with a 21 percent higher graduation rate.
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Samoa's National University has also postponed its end of the year graduation.
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The current push in our state is to improve college graduation rates.
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The New Yorker, June 11, 1932 P. 62 Mother's impressions while attending a commencement exercise for her young son, fourteen.
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He attended the commencement exercises and spoke pleasantly at the class supper.
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Commencement exercises this year were very interesting; more than ordinarily so.
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Herman Beckman did not go to the commencement exercises that night.
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Three thousand people were present at the Commencement exercises of LeMoyne Institute, Memphis.
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And for the survivors of the graduation exercise, there's no time to waste.
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This is the first lesson, not the graduation exercise.
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So none of us were worried about the upcoming " graduation exercise", thinking it would be just more of the same.
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Speaking at the graduation exercise last year, Commissioner of Police Antony Anderson also suggested that the programme be taken on across other parishes.
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She told only of the sermon, graduation exercises, and the ball.
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They turned into the Yard, where the commencement ceremony would be held.
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We were on campus for Wayne and Eunice's oldest daughter's outdoor commencement ceremony.
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The commencement ceremony is planned for May 8.
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A commencement ceremony had been scheduled for Thursday.
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The university had campaigned for more than a year for Obama to speak at its commencement ceremony.
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Graduates toss their caps in the air at the conclusion of the commencement ceremony for the U.S.
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They went to the commencement ceremony.
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Graduating students attend their spring commencement ceremony, May 5, 2013.
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There is no reason not to follow your heart. -Steve Jobs, at a Stanford University commencement ceremony in 2005.
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MBA students at Columbia University celebrate graduation during the year's commencement ceremony, May 18, 2005.
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The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was speaking in a video for a National Defense University commencement ceremony.
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Graduating students attend their spring commencement ceremony at Ohio State University in Columbus, May 5, 2013.
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He began his address by discussing the protests that marked his appointment in March as the speaker of the commencement ceremony.
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Graduates celebrate during a commencement ceremony in New York in this May 18, 2005 file photo.
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Graduating students at a commencement ceremony at a University in Greenville, South Carolina May 31, 2008.
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On April 3rd, they positioned themselves in front of their screens for an ad-hoc commencement ceremony conducted over a video-conferencing site.
