graduation ceremony

collocation in English

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graduation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌɡrædʒ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɡrædʒ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the fact of finishing a degree or other course of study at a university or school, or the ceremony at which you are officially said to ...
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ceremony
noun
uk
/ˈser.ɪ.mə.ni/us
/ˈser.ə.mə.ni/
(a set of) formal acts, often fixed and traditional, performed on important social or ...
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The students continue to have full access to all clubs, activities, and programs at their high school including thegraduationceremony.
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Our decision is that there will be nograduationceremony.
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The students continue to have full access to activities and programs at their high school including thegraduationceremony.
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These skills and standards are measured by a progressive grading system and agraduationceremonycalled an arangetram.
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If the disputation was part of agraduationceremony, the student (as respondent and candidate) defended the professor's dissertation (written as presider and promotor).
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The student paid for the professorial publication, since the program was part of his advancement to candidacy orgraduationceremony.
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All three students-two female, and one male-were presented to the sultan as the outstanding three students of the year during the open-airgraduationceremonyheld at the university's amphitheater.
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Does it simply mean from the registration day to the day on which thegraduationceremonytakes place?
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The first is agraduationceremonyfor all young people at 19.
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There is a two-week residential training course during which they get to know each other and learn the various commands, followed by agraduationceremonyif the dog is successful.
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He was describing a father attending his son'sgraduationceremonyand bursting into tears on the spot at hearing that his son wanted to go to graduate school.
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The students continue to have full access to activities and programs at their high school, including thegraduationceremony.
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Students remain enrolled at their high school, including thegraduationceremony.
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He refused to walk the stage and accept his diploma, opting out of thegraduationceremonyaltogether.
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At thegraduationceremonyaround 1887, he inspected all the programs under rain.
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The students continue to have full access to all clubs, activities and programs, at their high school including thegraduationceremony.
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The students continue to have full access to activities and programs at the high school, including thegraduationceremony.
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Upon successful completion of the twelfth grade, students graduate and may participate in agraduationceremony.
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