Thesaurus results for CLASSMATE

classmate

noun

Definition of classmate

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 Carter later met Sheen at the wedding of Sheen's niece and Carter's Marquette University classmate. — Aleja Hertzler-McCain, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026 On the Tuesday before commencement, Fisher and two classmates gathered around a high-top table at the Lone Star Oyster Bar, a popular spot south of campus. — Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 At least three students were killed and about 20 others injured in an attack at a public high school in Tacloban, where two classmates opened fire on campus. — CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026 In the late 1970s, University of Minnesota student Victoria Wozniak was hitchhiking and accepted a ride from classmate David Burton Morris, a movie nut who first became Wozniak’s friend, then lover, and ultimately husband. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for classmate

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Noun

Nussbaum and her colleagues began passing out leaflets at Boston subway and bus stops to women heading to their jobs at downtown office buildings.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Data he and his colleagues published last month in the BMJ suggests at least one in four former National Football League (NFL) players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—Nowinski says this is an underestimate.

— Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of colleague

Noun

Interestingly, a fleeting scene of Noah leaning on his teammates becomes a tragic mirror to Hal never having been able to do so (as a kid or as a Lantern) and John never getting along with his brothers.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
Sullivan was driving a Pontiac Montana minivan carrying his wife, son, and daughter, along with one of his daughter’s teammates and her father.

— Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of teammate

Noun

Harvard and its peer institutions won’t suddenly stop caring about their largest benefactors.

— Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
To track down more people living with HIV, the team is also recruiting and training peer support workers — including some existing meth users who are HIV positive.

— David Cox, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of peer

Noun

The person with the gun then pointed it at the vehicle's owner and her friend, and both robbers got in the vehicle and drove away, running over the friend's arm, the report says.

— arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2026
At the Hotel Bellagio, I was joined by a photographer, Yael, as well as a friend of mine named Belisario and his wife, Elizabeth, who had both jumped at the opportunity to enjoy the hotel restaurant’s air-conditioning.

— Belén Fernández, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of friend

Noun

The dramatic recipe involves equal parts literary ambition, risk-taking, and chutzpah, with a dash of substance abuse, cooked on the high heat of adolescent lust that brings Tony to Provincetown in pursuit of a schoolmate named Nancy (Emilia Jones).

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
Her schoolmate, Curtis Mehlberg, follows her, and both are able to enter that magical world.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026

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