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Examples of student in a Sentence
a group of college students
She is a student at Georgetown University.
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Democrats argued the proposal will lower revenue as many out-of-state students pay higher tuition rates than Florida students, while also making the system less attractive to the brightest students.
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Trailing by 11 points going into the fourth period, Kennedy trimmed its deficit to three points several times in the quarter but couldn’t catch Palisades, whose students recently returned to campus after being displaced by fires in January 2025.
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Arkansas Online, 5 Mar. 2026
Democrats argued the proposal will lower revenue as many out-of-state students pay higher tuition rates than Florida students, while also making the system less attractive to the brightest students.
—Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
Families and community advocates said the proposals risk disproportionately impacting Black and Latino students, focusing largely on downtown campuses while leaving many suburban schools in Almaden Valley untouched.
—Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
Trailing by 11 points going into the fourth period, Kennedy trimmed its deficit to three points several times in the quarter but couldn’t catch Palisades, whose students recently returned to campus after being displaced by fires in January 2025.
—Dan Albano, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/student. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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student
noun
stu·dent
ˈst(y)üd-ᵊnt 
chiefly Southern -ənt
1
: scholar sense 1
especially
: one who attends a school or college
2
: one who studies
a student of life
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