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Meanwhile, Tyra Banks — more than three decades after her original, unrelated role in Fresh Prince — plays a former college classmate with a big personality, with whom Viv is reluctantly reunited.
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
Their classmates are also assigned to be leaders of a handful of other groups.
—Kaleb Demerew, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
But as the pair’s romance blossoms, class disparities threaten to tear them apart, from her classmate Mantas’ (Matas Dirginciu) jealousy to her disciplinarian dad’s (Dainius Gavenonis) disapproval.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
Their classmates are also assigned to be leaders of a handful of other groups.
—Kaleb Demerew, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
But as the pair’s romance blossoms, class disparities threaten to tear them apart, from her classmate Mantas’ (Matas Dirginciu) jealousy to her disciplinarian dad’s (Dainius Gavenonis) disapproval.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
During the previous school year, the boy strangled and choked a teacher and pulled up a female classmate’s dress and touched her inappropriately on the school playground, the lawsuit claims.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classmate. Accessed 9 Nov. 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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