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one who attends a school
a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of students
Ivan Montijo, a b-boy breakdancer who teaches breakdancing to students in Stockton schools, told CBS Sacramento that this mural is a grassroots movement.
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Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
The students were asked to provide detectives with feedback on potential paths forward in three investigations, including the Cynthia Gonzalez case.
—Emerson Clarridge
updated March 21, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2026
There are two camps, one for middle school students (ages 11-13) and another for high school students (14-19).
—Jessie Dax-Setkus, Oc Register, 22 Mar. 2026
During the height of the operation, the school added a virtual option, and more than a third of the students opted in.
—Meg Anderson, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
Along a similar vein, students on campus have pined for more retail spaces to visit within walking distance of campus beyond a Davanni’s Pizza on Grand Avenue.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
The victims included two boys, two men and two women, University police said, and two were ISU students.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Our students can make their own political choices without Turning Point USA.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 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
Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
The students were asked to provide detectives with feedback on potential paths forward in three investigations, including the Cynthia Gonzalez case.
—Emerson Clarridge
updated March 21, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2026
There are two camps, one for middle school students (ages 11-13) and another for high school students (14-19).
—Jessie Dax-Setkus, Oc Register, 22 Mar. 2026
During the height of the operation, the school added a virtual option, and more than a third of the students opted in.
—Meg Anderson, NPR, 22 Mar. 2026
Along a similar vein, students on campus have pined for more retail spaces to visit within walking distance of campus beyond a Davanni’s Pizza on Grand Avenue.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
The victims included two boys, two men and two women, University police said, and two were ISU students.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Our students can make their own political choices without Turning Point USA.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 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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The puppet wore a black judicial robe and had glistening eyes with slit pupils.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2026
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Hungry for travel and unaware of his history of mental disturbance—a habit of firing pistols during classes for deaf pupils had impeded his progress in Scottish schools—Muriel agreed to follow him to Southern Rhodesia, where the couple were married the following year.—
Miranda Seymour,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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When China began to dominate that metric, some of its universities were paying cash rewards to scholars for each publication, and a lot of Chinese research papers were shoddy make-work.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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As scholars of post-9/11 racialization have shown, people taken to be Arab or Middle Eastern were widely cast as potential security threats, regardless of their religious identity.—
Candace Lukasik,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Students.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/students. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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