as in pupils
one who attends a school
a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of students
This case bears close similarities to the trials of James and Jennifer Crumbley, whose then-15-year-old son killed four students in 2021 at his high school in Oxford, Michigan.
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Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
At Florida Atlantic University (FAU), students have developed a guidebook to help identify which kinds of existing vacant properties may be most viable for affordable housing projects, putting adaptive reuse into practice.
—Margi Glavovic Nothard, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
Only 11% — 192 school buildings — actually make use of CEP to offer all students free meals.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026
State school calculations reflected the cost for in-state students only.
—Sasha Allen, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
Those included water bottles thrown at police, fights breaking out among students and reckless driving going on too close to the crowd, police said.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Yet the administration is silent on charter engagement, and fights other high-performing public-school models that have expanded opportunities for Black students.
—Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
In 2020, for example, the Sentinel reported that 156 private Christian schools with anti-gay views educated more than 20,800 students with tuition paid for by state scholarships.
—Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
Instead, school libraries have long served as vehicles to expose students to a broad array of ideas from authors who express unique, personal points of view.
—Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
At Florida Atlantic University (FAU), students have developed a guidebook to help identify which kinds of existing vacant properties may be most viable for affordable housing projects, putting adaptive reuse into practice.
—Margi Glavovic Nothard, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
Only 11% — 192 school buildings — actually make use of CEP to offer all students free meals.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2026
State school calculations reflected the cost for in-state students only.
—Sasha Allen, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
Those included water bottles thrown at police, fights breaking out among students and reckless driving going on too close to the crowd, police said.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Yet the administration is silent on charter engagement, and fights other high-performing public-school models that have expanded opportunities for Black students.
—Darius Jones, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
In 2020, for example, the Sentinel reported that 156 private Christian schools with anti-gay views educated more than 20,800 students with tuition paid for by state scholarships.
—Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
Instead, school libraries have long served as vehicles to expose students to a broad array of ideas from authors who express unique, personal points of view.
—Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for students
Noun
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Carbachol makes your pupils smaller, which helps sharpen near vision, while brimonidine keeps those pupils small for longer, making the eyedrops more effective before another dose is required.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Feb. 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
Noun
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What this small copper artifact from Grave 3932 suggests is that the roots of that enduring technology stretch far deeper into Egypt’s past than scholars had recognized.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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Some scholars suspect that his race was deliberately kept vague and note that, at the time, even those from other European countries like Italy or Spain would have been discriminated against by Brits.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Students.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/students. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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