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- noun Plural form of
mortarboard .
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Examples
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[Cut to a sea of silent, perplexed faces wearing mortarboards.]
GE's Immelt to college graduates: You're pretty much hosed. 2010
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Together we sat on plastic chairs, forming a sea of baby blue mortarboards spread over a cinderblock plaza nestled between Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, the Law School and a dormitory building.
Joy Heather Resmovits: Meryl Streep Offers Barnard Grads Directionless Inspiration Joy Heather Resmovits 2010
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But the real question is not the prudence of trusting teenagers to behave sanely in the weeks before they fling their tassels over their mortarboards.
Susan Coll's 'Beach Week,' about the annual high school rite of passage Lisa Grunwald 2010
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At the end of his speech, Casteen turned his focus to what college really meant to the students sitting before him in plastic sunglasses, mud-covered flip-flops and decorated mortarboards.
University of Virginia marks commencement with thoughts of lost classmates 2010
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At the end of his speech, Casteen turned his focus to what college really meant to the students sitting before him in plastic sunglasses, mud-covered flip-flops and decorated mortarboards.
University of Virginia marks commencement with thoughts of lost classmates 2010
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We sat on folding chairs in the "quadrangle," behind a sea of 583 black mortarboards ...
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When college grads don their gowns and mortarboards this June, hopefully they won't be dreaming about jobs pertaining to mortar and pestles.
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I admire the President for going through with the speech, knowing about the protesters, for addressing the concerns about his pro-choice position directly, for not responding to the hecklers, the placards, and the outlines of fetuses on some of the mortarboards...but for stating calmly and resolutely that there is common ground on reducing unintended pregnancies, supporting women who choose adoption, and providing support for women who carry their pregnancies to term.
What's the Connection?: Fair Words at Notre Dame -- But NOT a New Take on Abortion Debra W. Haffner 2009
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We sat on folding chairs in the "quadrangle," behind a sea of 583 black mortarboards ...
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We sat on folding chairs in the "quadrangle," behind a sea of 583 black mortarboards and black gowns which, I thought, should be cleverly marked with giant red question marks on the backs.
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