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
There, the perpetrators were high school boys at a private school who had created more than 300 deepfakes of 60 of their female classmates.
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Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
And in terms of education, most of the people within my generation and my brightest classmates opted to go to the United States for their graduate studies.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
Her first psychological thriller was the 2014 best-seller Dead Med, which follows a med student unpacking the tragic and mysterious deaths of her classmates.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2026
Ortiz said another classmate killed himself in 2020 and left a note citing the Santana shooting.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
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Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
And in terms of education, most of the people within my generation and my brightest classmates opted to go to the United States for their graduate studies.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
Her first psychological thriller was the 2014 best-seller Dead Med, which follows a med student unpacking the tragic and mysterious deaths of her classmates.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2026
Ortiz said another classmate killed himself in 2020 and left a note citing the Santana shooting.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for classmate
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Past employees have said that working under Levin is nightmarish; one former colleague of Levin’s filed a gender discrimination complaint against the organization in 2020.—
Paula Mejía,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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Their decisions came the day before the House returned to Washington and as both faced the prospect of being expelled from the chamber by their colleagues.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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In contrast, his teammate on the blueline is starting to see the vision.—
Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Five other teammates shot at least two free throws.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2026
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Like its tech peers, Meta is grappling with growing memory expenses and supply chain shortages stemming from the artificial intelligence boom.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Unlike many of its peer institutions, UMBC does not have vast resources at its disposal.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2026
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Robert is a funny, kind, and sweet boy who gets along well with others and loves to make new friends.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The nations in Southeast Asia, as well as Japan, will soon state their displeasure at having to suffer while their old Yankee friends are swimming in barrels of black gold.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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He and his old Shelton schoolmate Brian Reilly (who is credited as producer, assistant editor and unit production manager on this film) started their KT Pictures company around eight years ago.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2026
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Kaveri Mehta is there to marry her childhood schoolmate turned sweetheart Abhinav Singh.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/classmate. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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