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Shortly after Agnes starts the job, her closest friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie), an old schoolmate, comes to visit from New York.
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 2025
If your friends, family, colleagues, schoolmates, etc. aren't there, the platform can't grow, and new members quickly become dormant.
—Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
In the musical, Kimberly’s schoolmates (played by Grace Capeless, Skye Alyssa Friedman, Darron Hayes and Pierce Wheeler) become a little Greek chorus of show-choir nerds, trying to reconcile their adolescent angst with the problems faced by the young woman aging before their eyes.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Lilo, outcast by her schoolmates and coping with a gutting loss, felt the same way.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 21 May 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 2025
If your friends, family, colleagues, schoolmates, etc. aren't there, the platform can't grow, and new members quickly become dormant.
—Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
In the musical, Kimberly’s schoolmates (played by Grace Capeless, Skye Alyssa Friedman, Darron Hayes and Pierce Wheeler) become a little Greek chorus of show-choir nerds, trying to reconcile their adolescent angst with the problems faced by the young woman aging before their eyes.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Lilo, outcast by her schoolmates and coping with a gutting loss, felt the same way.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 21 May 2025
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolmate. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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schoolmate
noun
school·mate
-ˌmāt 
: a companion at school
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