former student

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A former student says he ran middle distances, cross-country, and acted a role model for younger runners until he graduated in 2013.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

He becomes the host to a former student named Sabiha, who has fled her home because she is suspected—wrongly, she claims—of killing her husband in a fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

And the South African knows the perfect people to help: her grandchildren, Nomali and Trevor and her former student Etienne.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

But it is a trait that Darnold has long exhibited, according to his high school coach Jaime Ortiz, who remembers his former student as a wildly gifted but quietly driven kid.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

In 1920, Hermann Muller, the former student of Thomas Morgan’s, moved from New York to Texas to continue studying fly genetics.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee