How native speakers pronounce “graduate”

born my biological mother was a young unwed graduate student and she decided to put me up for

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

wished that for myself and now as you graduate to begin a new I wish that for you stay hungry

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I had just turned 22 when I finished my first semester of graduate school at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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So I left the classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist. I started studying kids and adults

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and then waited around more than a year to see who would graduate. Turns out that grittier kids

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure,

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

then you can register for that class and they’ll give you the grade." Wow, they don’t do that in graduate schools, I don’t think. But I use that story because they really wanted to help me.

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And so I went on. My dad came out to see me graduate and, you know, I did the deal,

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