Thesaurus results for CLASSMATE

classmate

noun

as in colleague

a member of the same class in a school, college, or university She was widely regarded as the most likely to succeed among her classmates.

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Recent Examples of classmate That dose of serendipity was enough to prompt a classmate and me to take the two buses that were required to reach Memorial Stadium. —

Raymond Daniel Burke, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2026 Eventually, the girl let on that her classmate had indeed been bothering her, poking her in the back and face with his fingers — but did not say the boy had threatened to kill her, according to the police report. —

Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 23 Mar. 2026 For Brian, that’s being 17 years old with no classmate confidantes to call his own. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026 Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda, who was Muhammad's classmate at Texas, scored 11 points for Vanderbilt in the Commodores' 86-70 win over UT in February. —

Danny Davis, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for classmate

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Noun

Apple’s Weather, by contrast, seems designed to telegraph an aggressive certainty, which can contribute to incidents like my colleague’s shoe mishap.

— Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
Like many of his current colleagues, the Ohio Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is a longtime critic of warrantless surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2026