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as in classmate
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Recent Examples of schoolmate
Classes are canceled this week at Evergreen High School after a student shot two of his schoolmates before turning the gun on himself last Wednesday.
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
The boy who shot two schoolmates and himself at Evergreen High School was identified Thursday as 16-year-old Desmond Holly.
—The Denver Post, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Their son Marcus befriends a schoolmate, Quinn Rivers, who happens to be the daughter of the fire-and-brimstone leader of the religious group.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
Connect with family, friends, schoolmates, mutual contacts, former professors, mentors, and colleagues.
—Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
The boy who shot two schoolmates and himself at Evergreen High School was identified Thursday as 16-year-old Desmond Holly.
—The Denver Post, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Their son Marcus befriends a schoolmate, Quinn Rivers, who happens to be the daughter of the fire-and-brimstone leader of the religious group.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
Connect with family, friends, schoolmates, mutual contacts, former professors, mentors, and colleagues.
—Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmate
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Surely there exist teenagers, as confounded by their classmates’ fascination with the number 67 as their parents, who simply Googled it.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2025
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Kirkland studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and then with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio, where her classmates included Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
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Flagg watched teammate Naji Marshall pick Washington Wizards guard CJ McCollum’s pocket and then zoomed ahead in transition.—
Christian Clark,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Our thoughts and prayers are with his girlfriend Catalina, family, friends and his teammates.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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This is the scout who found the schoolboy Kieran Trippier playing for a team called Seedfield in the North Bury League, as well as discovering a young Taylor Harwood-Bellis at Spurley Hey Juniors in Stockport and the diminutive Rico Lewis playing as a winger-come-striker for Prestwich Pythons.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Ben’s college teammates mingled with his friends from high school, the latter having traveled from Hoover, Alabama, to tell stories of Ben’s stardom as a schoolboy phenom.—
Nick Stern,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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From Jeff Garcia’s Playboy playmate girlfriend’s bar fight to the Johnny Manziel disaster, from Odell Beckham Jr. begging opponents during games to come rescue him from Cleveland to the Deshaun Watson debacle, the Browns have more tire fires than Goodyear.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Taking matters into her own ghostly hands, Ana ventures outside to find the perfect playmate for her sister.—
Caroline Carlson
October 1,
Literary Hub,
1 Oct. 2025
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This season, fluorescent pink, blue and white formed a rational yet romantic palette — a vision of a young schoolgirl poised to step into the real world.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Since then, there’s been little doubt about who police believe is responsible for the 12-year-old schoolgirl’s gruesome death.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Then, in March, Flores-Ruiz hit his roommate more than two dozen times in the head and choked him for several seconds, according to a state criminal complaint.—
John Diedrich,
jsonline.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Her roommate was engaged to be married to another man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Sep. 2024
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Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.—
Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
24 June 2024
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On Tuesday’s episode, housemate Jenny Baird asked Glasson whether having kids was part of his life plan.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
15 Oct. 2025
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Rocha also did not take the stand, with the defense using the lead investigator on the case, Kansas City police detective Jeremy Wells, and Rocha’s housemate, Emily Ridout, as their only two witnesses.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmate. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.
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