classmate

Example Sentences

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"A lot of people would talk about it - it was not taboo," Sandra Symon, a high school classmate of Heuermann told the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Students seemed to conclude that an AI bot was a more convenient classmate than a human, and it showed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Marko Dobrasinovic, 24, who made the trek from Chicago to audition, bumped into an old high school classmate, Alyssa Frey, while in line to check in.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 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

Farmer convinced a well-heeled Duke classmate, Todd McCormack, to join the PIH board of advisers, as did, some months later, a fellow Harvard anthropology and medical student named Jim Yong Kim.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French