as in pupil
one who attends a school
a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of student
Admission is $20 ($15 for history center members, $10 for students).
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Reece also pled guilty in Brazoria County, Texas, to the murders of 17-year-old Jessica Cain and 20-year-old Kelli Cox, a student at the University of North Texas in Denton, who disappeared on July 15, 1997, after going on a class field trip.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
More than 30 states now require districts to restrict student phone use in some way, according to reporting from Education Week.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Yasuto Narukiyo, a graduate student at the Institute of Science Tokyo, presented the wireless receiver at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in San Francisco in February.
—Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
Reece also pled guilty in Brazoria County, Texas, to the murders of 17-year-old Jessica Cain and 20-year-old Kelli Cox, a student at the University of North Texas in Denton, who disappeared on July 15, 1997, after going on a class field trip.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
More than 30 states now require districts to restrict student phone use in some way, according to reporting from Education Week.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Yasuto Narukiyo, a graduate student at the Institute of Science Tokyo, presented the wireless receiver at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in San Francisco in February.
—Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for student
Noun
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Actor Marlon Brando and sportscaster Brent Musburger are former pupils.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The blank walls stared at her, vacant pinholes made by previous tenants peering down like dark, shrunken pupils.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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While the 1930s and 1940s did see some instances of carnival poking fun at the tyranny of the Nazi regime (none of which, it should be noted, went unpunished), Birdsall and other scholars maintain that the festival was, first and foremost, an avenue for propaganda.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Apr. 2026
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But while the Supreme Court has historically been deferential to presidents on immigration issues, defining who is an American by birth is different, according to longtime immigration law scholar Stephen Yale-Loehr.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/student. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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