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
These are all normal concerns a college student might ask about.
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Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
The residential requirement will go into effect next fall and require non-transferring first year students to live in university housing for two academic years.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Even Richard Nixon sought out student protesters one early morning—at the Lincoln Memorial—and tried to understand what drove them.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Green card holders like Gomez have been caught up in the deportation effort, too, including Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was incarcerated by ICE for months.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
The residential requirement will go into effect next fall and require non-transferring first year students to live in university housing for two academic years.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Even Richard Nixon sought out student protesters one early morning—at the Lincoln Memorial—and tried to understand what drove them.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Green card holders like Gomez have been caught up in the deportation effort, too, including Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was incarcerated by ICE for months.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for student
Recent Examples of Synonyms for student
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That meant that Emms pulled double duty of sorts at the London fest, also appearing in Jonatan Etzler’s black comedy Bad Apples, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a teacher finding her class of 10-year-olds disrupted by one unruly pupil.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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After parents were threatened with firings and evictions, 200 pupils withdrew.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Media studies scholar Stephen Ponder argues that William McKinley, inaugurated as president in 1897, laid the groundwork for Roosevelt’s later efforts to fully bring the press into the White House.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Nov. 2025
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And labor scholar Hamilton Nolan reminds us to breathe, and take the (rare) win.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/student. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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