schoolmates

plural of schoolmate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmates
Noun
  • 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.
    Emma Hurt, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
  • In high school, Tim began taking bets on football games from his classmates by selling parlay sheets for five dollars apiece.
    Keith O’Brien, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Just last month, an attack on Canvas, a software used in schools and colleges, put thousands of students at risk by exposing sensitive information.
    Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 21 June 2026
  • The story is much different in New Haven — predominantly Black and Latino, with roughly three quarters of students receiving free or reduced price meals.
    Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • His teammates kissed the top of his head as the fans celebrated.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 June 2026
  • Several of Kelce's teammates from the Kansas City Chiefs are expected to attend the nuptials.
    Caché McClay, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Truell and his future partners — Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger — were all undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • Goldman Sachs’ Pierfrancesco Mei believes this is evidence that undergraduates are changing their behavior to avoid career paths most easily destroyed by AI.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • His wife, Francisca, and their two young sons were surrounded by relatives, friends, and colleagues during the ceremony.
    Doug Myers, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • In fact, many of us often end up buying things that our colleagues found during their search.
    Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Clare joins me now to share why readers are spending real time and money to live inside their favorite fictional stories.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 22 June 2026
  • As poetry, some readers may prefer Mendelsohn’s version, but for a movie made now Wilson’s seems the natural choice.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • Kaylee Goncalves also felt as though she was being watched and stalked in the weeks before she was murdered alongside two of her roommates and one roommate's boyfriend.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In May, William revealed that George had spent the previous night boarding at Lambrook, where many pupils ease into boarding life before senior school.
    Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • Affected babies may show symptoms including constipation, poor feeding, drooping eyelid, sluggish pupils, low muscle tone, difficulty sucking and swallowing, weak or altered crying, difficulty breathing, and generalized weakness.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 June 2026
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“Schoolmates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmates. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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