classmate

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Vauhini Vara, is a tech journalist and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist of “The Immortal King Rao,” who spent several years with Mahajan at Stanford as his classmate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

He attended Princeton, but when a classmate was killed in Vietnam in 1967, he joined the Marines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

It was those drawings that caught the eye of Geisel's classmate, and fellow American, Helen Palmer.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

The show follows three childhood friends whose very different lives converge at a wake for a former classmate in rural Ireland.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Their classmate marched briskly out of the hotel lobby wearing a bright blue sweatshirt and a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein