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Recent Examples of bachelor
Shaping Twitch in the Creator Economy After earning a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science from the University of California San Diego, with a specialization in design and interaction, Adam started his career as a product designer at companies like Tesla and Meta before moving to Twitch in 2022.
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William Jones, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Denver ranked for median household income, adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher, and millennial newcomers.
—Sara B. Hansen, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Pew also found that about half of AI users have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 39% of non-AI users.
—Josie Cox, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Born in California, Sanderson grew up in Idaho and after high school went on a Mormon mission in the south of France for two years before getting a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
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William Jones, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
Denver ranked for median household income, adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher, and millennial newcomers.
—Sara B. Hansen, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Pew also found that about half of AI users have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 39% of non-AI users.
—Josie Cox, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Born in California, Sanderson grew up in Idaho and after high school went on a Mormon mission in the south of France for two years before getting a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bachelor
Noun
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In its 2001 film adaptation, Zellweger fell headfirst into life as a London girl and audiences around the globe fell in love with a verbally incontinent spinster who drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney and dresses like her mother.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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The latter have moved away from the village and do not appear, while the former stay and assist their mother, the eldest being a literal spinster.—
Ryan Swen,
Variety,
18 Jan. 2025
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The collection includes a traditional gamelan ensemble, a 19th-century star calendar used to predict destinies and a pair of 17th-century celestial maidens intricately carved from pink volcanic tuff stone.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Now, a good 25 years after it was written, The Last Five Years is getting its maiden run on Broadway, with Adrienne Warren playing Cathy, the promising young musical theater actress floundering in summer stock, and Nick Jonas as Jamie, the driven young writer hurtling toward literary stardom.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The show sees one single woman, usually a former contestant from The Bachelor, choose from a pool of around 25 men with male daters competing to win roses before the bachelorette chooses between two men in a final rose ceremony.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
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Witherspoon presents Margot not as some unhappy bachelorette, but as a modern, self-reliant woman.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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In Banksy’s version, the maid is replaced by two men wearing hazmat suits and pushing a barrel of toxic waste.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Feb. 2025
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Back at stately Beck Manor, Reacher finally gets to tuck into some of the Irish cook’s delicious stew and parler a little français with the French maid, who reveals that Beck has a mechanic on staff, too.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Bachelor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bachelor. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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