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His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
As a graduate student at Harvard Business School in 1992, Gunty’s classmates caught him tampering with votes to help elect himself president of a prestigious student-club.
—Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Sophomore Maddie Koltes and her classmates couldn't access any of the class lectures and other study material in Canvas Thursday during the cyberattack.
—Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 8 May 2026
The shooter was soon identified as a former physics classmate thought to have been jealous of Loureiro’s success.
—Faye Flam, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
As a graduate student at Harvard Business School in 1992, Gunty’s classmates caught him tampering with votes to help elect himself president of a prestigious student-club.
—Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Sophomore Maddie Koltes and her classmates couldn't access any of the class lectures and other study material in Canvas Thursday during the cyberattack.
—Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 8 May 2026
The shooter was soon identified as a former physics classmate thought to have been jealous of Loureiro’s success.
—Faye Flam, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classmate. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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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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