sophomore
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A sophomore in Arizona typed an email he never sent.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Katie Istomin, a rising sophomore at Cornell, wants to make sure that anyone she’s giving up time for will match her ambition and understand her busy schedule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
It’s his time when the opportunity presents itself to prove that sophomore Drake is back and show what he’s capable of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
He played basketball for the Lions, but after his sophomore season he decided to try football, since his physical play in basketball led to fouls, something that was legal in football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
O High was his third high school in Oakland, plus he’d spent sophomore year living in a group home in Redding, California, three and a half hours away.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
Fortunately, my English teacher, Thomas Dolan, suggested I join Stuyvesant’s SING!, in which freshmen and sophomores competed against juniors and seniors in original productions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bringas and Feuer have partnered at Ojai the last three years, losing in the quarterfinal round as sophomores and juniors but steamrolling this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
Their vision, combined with the persistence of fellow Crossroads sophomores Samantha Leeds and Hannah Carey, has birthed the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Brown President Christina Paxson said she believed the shooting happened inside a final-exam review session for a principles of economics class where most of the students in the class were freshmen or sophomores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
By all appearances they were going to be shunted aside, humiliated for the sake of Ulbrickson’s all too precious sophomores.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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