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
Many involve access problems for, or harassment of, students with disabilities.
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Her memories of Fang Klein run deep, having met as students at San José State University in 1996, where Fang Klein earned her bachelor’s degree in dance with a minor in musical theater.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
And the University of San Francisco issued a public safety warning to students after a man wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses was suspected of filming women with the intention of posting the videos online.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
Coaches teach students how to build custom agents or how to use platforms like Claude and Perplexity to analyze information.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
The event will feature performances and presentations by the seven top students and is free to attend with a reservation.
—Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 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
The long-term goal is to turn the 30-acre campus into a humming technology and innovation hub for students, startups, the company’s electric vehicle program and old-fashioned brick-and-mortar ventures like anchor tenant Yellow Light, the station’s first indoor eatery since 1988.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
To prepare, students have mandatory culture classes.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Her memories of Fang Klein run deep, having met as students at San José State University in 1996, where Fang Klein earned her bachelor’s degree in dance with a minor in musical theater.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
And the University of San Francisco issued a public safety warning to students after a man wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses was suspected of filming women with the intention of posting the videos online.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
Coaches teach students how to build custom agents or how to use platforms like Claude and Perplexity to analyze information.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
The event will feature performances and presentations by the seven top students and is free to attend with a reservation.
—Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 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
The long-term goal is to turn the 30-acre campus into a humming technology and innovation hub for students, startups, the company’s electric vehicle program and old-fashioned brick-and-mortar ventures like anchor tenant Yellow Light, the station’s first indoor eatery since 1988.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
To prepare, students have mandatory culture classes.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for students
Noun
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Everything old feels new again, down to the iconic yellow-eyed logo, displayed up on a catwalk lined with TV screens, in which the static cat-eye pupils first wriggle, then reveal themselves as slinky, silhouetted dancers.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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The district lost thousands of students this school year, will close seven schools this summer as a result and expects enrollment to drop by another 10,000 pupils in the next five years.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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As one of the nation’s most consequential legal thinkers and scholars, Heather Gerken has long directed her fierce intellect toward defending free and fair elections, a strong civic architecture, and the rule of law.—
Elizabeth Alexander,
Time,
15 Apr. 2026
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Legal scholars hinge that false opinion on their false understanding of grammar.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Students.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/students. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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