(n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) You're an alumnus of Nottingham's respected Television Workshop (past students include Samantha Morton).
(2) Though Chasez has pursued a relatively successful post-Sync career, as a solo artist and reality TV judge, the group has a yet more famous alumnus.
(3) LTPA was measured with the Lipid Research Clinics (LRC), Godin Leisure-Time Exercise, and the College Alumnus physical activity questionnaires.
(4) Just before the Murdoch tweet, Colin Moynihan – a former Tory minister, alumnus of Monmouth school and chair of the British Olympic Association – cited the fact that 50% of Britain's gold-medal winners at the Beijing Olympics were from private schools as "one of the worst statistics in British sport".
(5) Some years ago, in company with Divya Narendra, another Harvard alumnus who had worked with them on the original concept, they launched a lawsuit against the Facebook founder that resulted in two things: a $65m legal settlement in which the Winklevii got $20m in cash and $45m-worth of Facebook shares; and a major Hollywood movie – The Social Network – which tells the story in colourful terms.
(6) I hope that King’s will listen to its most beloved alumnus and a man revered around the world as a moral voice,” said Mark Horowitz, from the Fossil Free KCL campaign.
(7) What clearly will not influence Davies, a Manchester Grammar School boy, Oxford graduate and alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the prime minister's notion of a happiness index, once promoted by David Cameron as a rival barometer of success to growth which, it was said, would play a key role in the big future policy decisions.
(8) Market abuse An alumnus of Clifton College, a leading private school, and Oxford University, Sants is invariably described as smooth by anyone who has had dealings with him.
(9) As a black alumnus who walked past that statue for four years, I think Rhodes should be left exactly where he is “He was racist.
(10) "Well, if you were to pick up our March edition (on sale February 5), you could see the single healthiest foodstuff available at each and every Premiership ground in the country," writes kindly GU alumnus and now commisioning editor at Men's Health magazine, Dan Jones.
(11) He was elected to that post on his second attempt, in 1978, helped by another St John’s alumnus and Catholic politician, the Democratic governor, Hugh Carey .
(12) A lawyer and University of Michigan alumnus, Orr helped steer Chrysler out of bankruptcy, but this is a dilemma of an altogether greater magnitude.
(13) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
(14) The Mackintosh Building is not just part of Glasgow's heritage - it is a national treasure May 23, 2014 3.53pm BST Another alumnus of the GSA is the broadcaster and journalist Muriel Gray, pictured here in tears near the scene of the fire.
(15) A Procter and Gamble alumnus, Bret is a past board member of Stanley Park Ecological Society and licensee for TEDxUBC.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump arrived just in time to do the monologue where a gag about how Trump actually thought plus-sized brunette cast member Aidy Bryant was Rosie O’Donnell was moderately amusing, as was Trump standing cheek to impressive jowl with two of his impersonators from the show, current cast member Taran Killam and alumnus Darrell Hammond, who did fake-Trump duties back in 2004 when he last hosted the show, at the height of his The Apprentice resurgence.
(17) Ralph Egwu, 27, is working with Edinburgh University alumnus Amy Burridge towards an A-level in government and politics in what is his first experience of formal education.
(18) Updated at 12.59pm BST 12.41pm BST Shiv Malik has joined the blog with this dispatch from a Hounslow school that boasts a fairly famous alumnus: I’m here at Feltham community college on the outskirts of west London where pupils and teachers have delivered a “truly outstanding” set of academic results.
(19) Relations were at a low during Boris Yeltsin's presidency, but there was a marked thaw after Aliev's fellow KGB alumnus, Vladimir Putin came to power.
(20) With regard to all-cause mortality, cigarette smoking and hypertension were most hazardous for the individual; smoking and lack of vigorous recreational play were most hazardous for the alumnus population as a whole.
Hoosier
Definition:
(n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Example Sentences:
(1) The symbolism and the politics of the law are far more troubling and far more toxic than the actual substance of what the law will do itself.” That symbolism compelled store owners in Indianapolis to put up signs that say: “Instead of hate, we proudly serve everyone,” “This Hoosier still opposes the anti-LGBT license to discriminate,” and “Open for service!
(2) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
(3) On the face of it, the Hoosiers don't seem like victims of the music industry's implosion: the London-based band were given the full-on major label push in 2007, and sold a million records.
(4) The Hoosier Oncology Group evaluated cimetidine in 42 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
(5) Assuming luck runs their way, the radio plugger can keep the playlisters onside, and social media reminds old fans of the band's existence, the Hoosiers might be able to keep their career afloat.
(6) 'T hings seem so obvious now," says Irwin Sparkes, the singer and guitarist of the Hoosiers, "but back at the beginning we thought we just needed to be this really solid live band, and have a following.
(7) The hospitality and character of Hoosiers are synonymous with everything that is good about America,” Pence said.
(8) Although their first single, Worried About Ray, was a hit in 2007, the Hoosiers had spent a decade achieving their overnight success.
(9) From December 1987 through April 1989, 40 patients with extensive-stage small cell carcinoma of the lung were enrolled in a Hoosier Oncology Group (HOG) trial using etoposide, ifosfamide, and cisplatin (VIP).
(10) This is not just a gay issue, this is a Hoosier issue,” said city councilman Zach Adamson, the first openly gay elected councilman in Indianapolis .
(11) The Hoosier Oncology Group (HOG) is composed of community medical and radiation oncologists (85%) and Indiana University faculty members (15%).
(12) Though her plan expanded Medicaid to nearly 400,000 Hoosiers, she has argued that new recipients are “ able-bodied ” enough to not need “the same set of policy protections” as the “aged, blind, or disabled”.
(13) Between August 1984 and November 1989, the Hoosier Oncology Group conducted a Phase III study comparing cyclophosphamide (CTX) with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and methotrexate (CAM) in patients with hormone-refractory metastatic prostatic cancer to determine whether the addition of doxorubicin and methotrexate to the cyclophosphamide regimen conferred any survival advantage.
(14) Earlier this year, the Hoosiers told Film&Music how pleased they had been at first when their comeback single, after two years away, reached No 11 in the charts.
(15) I think it’s very destructive to the fabric of this country.” A day after Bush’s original statement, Pence held an awkward, 35-minute news conference in which he decried “the smear that’s been leveled against this law and the people of Indiana”, which he said was “deeply offensive to me as a Hoosier”.
(16) In the counterintuitive world of the 21st-century record business, such seeming illogic is becoming a new norm – especially for bands, such as the Hoosiers, who were not signed on so-called "360-degree" deals, and who therefore keep their income from touring, merchandising and songwriting rather than paying a proportion of it to the label.
(17) And our efforts over many years to retool our economy, to attract talented workers and thriving businesses, and to improve the quality of life for millions of Hoosiers”.
(18) A Hoosier Oncology Group (HOG) study will evaluate this three-drug regimen v cisplatin plus etoposide, and this protocol will establish or refute the value of ifosfamide as first-line therapy in extensive SCLC.
(19) Interest in the Hoosiers within the company began to flag.
(20) Fifty-one patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer were treated on a Hoosier Oncology Group protocol with an aggressive, high-dose cisplatin combination chemotherapy regimen.