commencement
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Synonyms & Antonyms for commencement
Synonyms
alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold
Antonyms
close, conclusion, end, ending, omega
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Simply speaking publicly before an audience was rare for women in Stone’s day (at Oberlin College, she was asked to write a commencement speech but not permitted to actually deliver it), and her appearances drew protests. — Felice Belman, BostonGlobe.com, "From Massachusetts, a key player in suffrage fight," 15 Aug. 2019 An outdoor amphitheater, framed by tulip trees and white oaks, plays host to the commencement every year, and more and more buildings’ roofs are being transformed into gardens. — Condé Nast Traveler, "The 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America," 6 Aug. 2018 Some of the most emotional parts of the commencement came when four seniors who died in the shooting — Meadow Pollack, Carmen Schentrup, Nicholas Dworet and Joaquin Oliver — were honored. — Nick Maslow, PEOPLE.com, "Jimmy Fallon Surprises Parkland Students with Heartwarming Graduation Speech," 3 June 2018 While giving the commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the 2019 class of Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy, Pharrell Williams had a surprise up his sleeve. — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, "Pharrell Williams Promises Internships to 114 High School Graduates in Harlem," 3 July 2019 Grammy Award-winning artist Pharrell Williams delivered a surprise announcement during his commencement speech to graduating students in Harlem. — Chevaz Clarke, CBS News, "Pharrell Williams promises internships to more than 100 Harlem high school graduates," 3 July 2019 But one person who wasn’t familiar with her work was Gwen Lynch, the lone student at a commencement speech the Milton native gave earlier this month. — Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, "Jenny Slate and Seth Meyers joked about her speech for a graduating class of 1," 26 June 2019 Years later, Biden spoke about the tragedy in a 2015 Yale commencement speech. — Marie Claire, "Joe Biden's First Wife, Neilia, and Daughter Naomi Passed Away In a 1972 Accident," 26 June 2019 This is the prepared text of the Stanford University commencement speech delivered June 16, 2019 by Apple CEO Tim Cook. — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, "Here’s what Apple CEO Tim Cook told Stanford grads about accountability and responsibility," 17 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'commencement.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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