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On the date of the incident, Dylan and her classmates were on a training platform about 16 feet below the surface.
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
My kindergarten classmates tended to gravitate towards calligraphy, swimming, ballet and English conversation classes, but I would rather be caught dead than do anything that involved ‘learning together’.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Odukoya was introduced to football in the Netherlands by a classmate.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Carter was sitting in her chair, listening to a lesson, when Octavius Johnson, a classmate who had a crush on her, started to fire off insults.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
My kindergarten classmates tended to gravitate towards calligraphy, swimming, ballet and English conversation classes, but I would rather be caught dead than do anything that involved ‘learning together’.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Odukoya was introduced to football in the Netherlands by a classmate.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Carter was sitting in her chair, listening to a lesson, when Octavius Johnson, a classmate who had a crush on her, started to fire off insults.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classmate. Accessed 24 Oct. 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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