schoolmates

Definition of schoolmatesnext
plural of schoolmate
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Noun
  • Friends and classmates, meanwhile, were being disappeared.
    Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Shortly after midnight on May 25, prosecutors said the same group of teens were driving around San Mateo pulling pranks on classmates from Hillsdale High School.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • And his manager and teammates are already talking about it.
    Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Both forwards scored Wednesday, and both enhanced the opportunities of several teammates.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • To reach the site, study lead author Scott Evans, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, and his colleagues embarked on a 14-hour drive and a helicopter flight.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 20 May 2026
  • Babydog, whose fame has captured the hearts of many supporters and colleagues on Capitol Hill — even starring in political ads for Justice — is seen in a video on her official X account.
    Britta Miller, The Washington Examiner, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • His parents, who met as students at Central State University, a historically Black college in Ohio, were both social workers.
    Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The endowment exists to support the mental, emotional and physical wellness of students and staff at the University of North Georgia.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • The Seattle campus of the University of Washington has about 36,000 undergraduates, who study under a quarter system that wraps up its spring classes relatively late in the academic year.
    Erick Mendoza, NBC news, 14 May 2026
  • More than 52,000 students, including over 36,000 undergraduates, were enrolled at the university's Seattle campus for the 2025 to 2026 school year, according to the school's website.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 12 May 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
  • This is complicity spurred on by a certain kind of Western readers desire to maintain their romantic image of Russia’s past without having to engage critical with Russia’s present.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Its $160 billion or so in assets under management (AUM) is a fraction of what the big boys handle, and most readers might not recognize the name.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • But, like the concept of coworkers chatting around the watercooler inside a corporate office, that notion is becoming lost to time.
    Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
  • Tributes Social media is covered with memories of Newsome, from family, former coworkers and those who looked up to on television.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
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“Schoolmates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmates. Accessed 23 May. 2026.

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