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as in classmate
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Recent Examples of schoolmate
Sheeran wedded his childhood friend and former schoolmate, Cherry Seaborn, in 2019, and the happy couple have two kids.
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Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
18 Feb. 2026
Additionally, her former schoolmate, who is now an activist nun, brings disquiet to the community when she is stranded there while returning the remains of a former nun, a murder victim.
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The Know,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
Reflecting on the value of community in womanhood, Paltrow also gave a shout-out to a celebrity schoolmate.
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Lex Goldstein,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
Whereas the play only obliquely references the character’s successful new novel, this version presents Eileen’s manuscript — co-written with her mousy lover Thea (Imogen Potts), a former schoolmate of Hedda’s — as a revelatory treatise on the future of human sexuality.
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Abby Monteil,
Them.,
28 Oct. 2025
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Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
18 Feb. 2026
Additionally, her former schoolmate, who is now an activist nun, brings disquiet to the community when she is stranded there while returning the remains of a former nun, a murder victim.
—
The Know,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
Reflecting on the value of community in womanhood, Paltrow also gave a shout-out to a celebrity schoolmate.
—
Lex Goldstein,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
Whereas the play only obliquely references the character’s successful new novel, this version presents Eileen’s manuscript — co-written with her mousy lover Thea (Imogen Potts), a former schoolmate of Hedda’s — as a revelatory treatise on the future of human sexuality.
—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmate
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Her family proudly captured the moment at graduation the next week, as her classmates laughed and cheered along, based on footage shared with the AJC.
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Still, just three semesters into college, Freese briefly dropped out after signing with the Philadelphia Union, turning professional while many of his classmates were still settling into college life.
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Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.
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Ghosts of Iraqi Freedom A few days after my ride across town, on April 7, a rocket fired by militiamen landed in an empty room in a house in my neighborhood, and another killed an eight-year-old schoolboy named Siraj in nearby al-Amiriyah.
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Their teammates came forward for an arguing match before the ref pulled out the yellow to get things under control.
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Few players in the NBA set up teammates with as many easy shots as Young.
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Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.
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The al-Roj camp also houses Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who ran away at the age of 15 to join ISIS in 2015 and was subsequently stripped of her British citizenship.
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The pandemic a handful of years ago put parents and children in the same space for extended periods, with moms and dads taking on even more concentrated roles of teacher, coach, and playmate, Price-Glynn says, evermore raising the need to talk about things like parental burnout and respite.
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Pepper’s slow pace, long pauses before taking a turn, and apparent determination to win often clashed with participants’ expectations of how a human-like playmate should behave.
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Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.
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Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people, including a schoolchild, died at the scene, although that was according to preliminary information.
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The roommate should be brought to testify in person, the defense attorneys said, so that Robinson can exercise his right to confront witnesses in person and challenge their credibility.
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The guy next to me was my roommate’s best friend at UCLA.
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Between 2021 and 2025, Chinese universities ended or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs and introduced about 10,200 new ones, according to Ministry of Education data cited by Xinhua, China’s official state news agency.
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Whitehead wanted to write, but workshops rejected him and the cliquish undergraduate literary scene put him off.
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmate. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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