as in pupil
one who attends a school
a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of student
For the moment, institutions with fewer than 3,000 tuition-paying students—which means most liberal-arts colleges—are exempted from this increase, so their budgets remain untouched.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
No matter what the board eventually decides, students won’t see the literary works list in their schools immediately.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
In addition to athletics, Chopas is a high honor roll student and an All-Conference pianist.
—Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Over the last two weeks, students at schools across Minnesota have held walkouts in protest of the immigration operation and Good's killing.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 23 Jan. 2026
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
No matter what the board eventually decides, students won’t see the literary works list in their schools immediately.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
In addition to athletics, Chopas is a high honor roll student and an All-Conference pianist.
—Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
Over the last two weeks, students at schools across Minnesota have held walkouts in protest of the immigration operation and Good's killing.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for student
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The art market, in whiplash fashion, experienced pupil-dilating highs just after the pandemic, a lethargic two-year slump, then a sudden multi-billion-dollar rebound in the fall.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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So last year, the students helped out at Central Middle School setting up Chromebooks for pupils and also at Mercy Circle retirement community.—
Janice Neumann,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Legal scholars say this framing is intentional.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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Take Habermas, whose defense of Israeli ethnic cleansing was protested immediately by such eminent scholars as Adam Tooze and Amia Srinivasan.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/student. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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