student body

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The student body collectively sighed “Alas, this too,” but then mobbed the dorms anyway, cheering and hugging fearlessly with unmasked smiles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

He was successful in high school, becoming the starting quarterback, class and student body president.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2026

Polgár University, with a student body consisting of sisters Susan, Judit and Sofia Polgár, was constructed of 32 pieces and 64 squares—an affordable infrastructure, even in Soviet-run and impoverished Hungary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

One of the UK's most prestigious independent schools will accept girls into its main student body for the first time in its near five-and-a-half-century history from next year.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

In eight years Permian had gone from being a virtually all-white school to one where the proportion of minorities in the student body was about 30 percent.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger