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Nobody suspected anything sinister when a sixth grader at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Japan, asked her 12-year-old classmate Satomi Mitarai to leave their classroom just before lunch break on June 1, 2004.
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Christine Pelisek, People.com, 15 June 2025
The parents of a classmate had bought a poster-size map of the world for their daughter.
—Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
Piasecki, the husband of a college classmate, had a child die a year later.
—Matt Villano, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
That's just an appetizer CT high school’s joy in graduation dimmed by classmate taken by ICE.
—State Rep. Matt Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025
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Christine Pelisek, People.com, 15 June 2025
The parents of a classmate had bought a poster-size map of the world for their daughter.
—Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
Piasecki, the husband of a college classmate, had a child die a year later.
—Matt Villano, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
That's just an appetizer CT high school’s joy in graduation dimmed by classmate taken by ICE.
—State Rep. Matt Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025
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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classmate. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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classmate
noun
class·mate
ˈklas-ˌmāt 
: a member of the same class in a school or college
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