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At the vigil, Pierre’s family joined by dozens of friends, classmates and activists at the teen’s high school, Eagle Academy of Southeast Queens, before setting off down Merrick Blvd.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026 -
Schools brought in counselors for the victims’ young classmates and community leaders called for a citywide reckoning on stopping domestic violence.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
21 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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De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales.—
Téa Kvetenadze,
Forbes,
7 Oct. 2021
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In a follow-up email to ARTnews, Lord and Teng, the gallery’s two managing partners, said that Marian Goodman Gallery was not immune to market forces, much like its colleagues.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Occasionally, his wife, friends, or colleagues lend a hand.—
Rachel Ventresca,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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Rory is delighted when his older sister weaves a playmate for him out of flowers and words, naming her Daye.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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Earlier that same month, the former Playboy playmate tried out a splash of color, adding pink streaks to her platinum hair.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
19 Feb. 2026
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His former comrades testified against him; incriminating photos, found hidden in his garden, were shown in court.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
19 Apr. 2026
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Yet the North Vietnamese were not the ideological comrades of American college students and Jane Fonda.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Before the sentence was handed down, Spann gave a 15-minute lecture, largely aimed at the three federal prosecutors seated across the courtroom from him, accusing them of cutting deals to get associates to lie.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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Beatriz Browne is supervising producer and Ellie Vargas id associate producer.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
20 Apr. 2026
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This subsequently sends the starship forward or backward in time, while occasionally (and inexplicably) transforming your shipmates into freaky clay heads.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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Zumba, a Navy reservist who earlier was a shipmate of Urena on the destroyer USS Carney, pleaded guilty in December to the same charge.—
Steve Patterson,
Florida Times-Union,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Schoolfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolfellow. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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