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Recent Examples of student At the center of Friday's case was the Montgomery County, Md., school system, the most religiously diverse county in the nation, with 160,000 students of nearly all faiths. Nina Totenberg, NPR, 27 June 2025 Purdue's satellite campuses in Fort Wayne and Northwest Indiana will also see tuition remain unchanged for in-state students. Ron Wilkins, USA Today, 27 June 2025 The school board also alleged opt-outs were difficult to carry out, as teachers had to find alternative lesson plans for excused students, according to court documents. Solcyré Burga, Time, 27 June 2025 The methodology incorporated ratings from current students, alumni, and parents, as well as quantitative data collected from the U.S. Department of Education. Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for student
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Noun
  • California students have been lagging behind the state’s expectations and national norms for many years, even as spending on the school system has continued to climb to well over $20,000 a year per pupil from state aid, local property taxes and federal subventions.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
  • The first test was pretty simple and relied on shining the light into the mice’s eyes to see if this would trigger their pupils to contract.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself).
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 30 June 2025
  • The festival also offers performances by local dance or music groups, lectures by Shakespeare scholars and food offerings from Tom’s Travelin’ Coffee Truck or OneSong Biscotti.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025

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