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Recent Examples of schoolmate
Watch on Deadline Years before the murders, a schoolmate of Buster Murdaugh, Stephen Smith, was killed in what was believed at the time to be a hit-and-run accident.
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
Pavlenko signed up for a class in extreme dance in 2009 after learning about it from a schoolmate and immediately loved breaking.
—Hannah Poukish, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
On the Monday that should have marked the boy's first day back from fall break, teachers, schoolmates and family instead filled three hospital hallways to honor the lives Willie will now impact as an organ donor.
—Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
Daniel, his family, and his schoolmates, are stand-up role models for little ones—who present realistic and healthy examples of toddler behavior, often through song—but parents can also learn a lesson or two from this family-friendly show.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
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Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
Pavlenko signed up for a class in extreme dance in 2009 after learning about it from a schoolmate and immediately loved breaking.
—Hannah Poukish, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
On the Monday that should have marked the boy's first day back from fall break, teachers, schoolmates and family instead filled three hospital hallways to honor the lives Willie will now impact as an organ donor.
—Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
Daniel, his family, and his schoolmates, are stand-up role models for little ones—who present realistic and healthy examples of toddler behavior, often through song—but parents can also learn a lesson or two from this family-friendly show.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmate
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With colleges enrolling more later-in-life students, having athlete classmates who are also later-in-life may seem normal and appropriate.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
11 Jan. 2025
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Katerina ‘Katy’ Puig, her classmate at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, 19, faces a lifetime of care after a suffering a traumatic brain injury.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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Several Miami Heat teammates also made the trip to the Camarillo gym.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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Kolesar is always the first to drop the gloves to defend a teammate and is just flat-out better all over the ice than he’s been in previous seasons.—
Jesse Granger,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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The peewee population interacted with each other in various settings and included bocce bowlers, bare-bottomed peasants, baguette bakers, blind men, the mustachioed mayor, female fishmongers, dunce hat-wearing schoolboys, snail saleswomen, and gobs more characters.—
gqlshare,
Orange County Register,
15 Jan. 2025
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At Exeter City, he was rejected once before belatedly signing schoolboy forms.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery's tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery.—
Brian Smith,
arkansasonline.com,
29 Dec. 2024
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The Carters were the only white family in Archery, and his playmates were the children of Black tenant farmers.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
29 Dec. 2024
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Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl.—
Bob Morris,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
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In a twist of fate, Leonard and Howard were roommates at the Manning Passing Academy last summer.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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Palmer plays Dreux, a Los Angeles waitress who, when her artist roommate Alyssa (SZA) gives their rent money to an untrustworthy boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua David Neal), goes on a madcap, day-long odyssey to raise the money before they’re evicted.—
Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Sep. 2024
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Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.—
Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
24 June 2024
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Challenge your housemates to a game at the bowling alley at Beartooth Pub & Rec.—
Stephanie Rosenbloom,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Yet the audience soon comes back to reality to spend a few more scenes with the housemates.—
William Earl,
Variety,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmate. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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