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Along with criticizing the government’s immigration enforcement policy, Cardenas ended her speech at the rally with a request for prayer, leading her schoolmates in a call for peaceful resistance.
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
And the boys reported a startling discovery in the Texas ICE facility – a schoolmate had been detained without the school district’s knowledge.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
Early on in his cyberstalking, Hardy's victims started as mostly his schoolmates in Northwich.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
Gottlieb spoke only Yiddish but learned English from schoolmates and went on to receive his undergraduate degree and his master’s from UCLA.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
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Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
And the boys reported a startling discovery in the Texas ICE facility – a schoolmate had been detained without the school district’s knowledge.
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
Early on in his cyberstalking, Hardy's victims started as mostly his schoolmates in Northwich.
—Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
Gottlieb spoke only Yiddish but learned English from schoolmates and went on to receive his undergraduate degree and his master’s from UCLA.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolmate. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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schoolmate
noun
school·mate
-ˌmāt 
: a companion at school
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