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One month after Amber’s murder, Williams visited her daughter’s elementary school classmates.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025 -
Despite deciding not to interact with his classmates Si-eun winds up talking to Jun-tae, played by Choi Min-young (XO, Kitty, Twenty Five Twenty One).—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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A number of survivors of that shooting now attend FSU, including schoolmates of his late daughter, Montalto told CBS News.—
Scott MacFarlane,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Almost a decade in the making, and currently in post-production, the film will recount the harrowing story of the nine Charbonneau sisters and their childhood schoolmates who endured horrific abuse at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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This week, my fellow Wellness colleague and experienced runner, David Oliver, wrote an inspiring piece about a 77-year-old who ran the Boston marathon this week.—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Factors That Can Impact Your Brain Health After examining 59 different meta-analyses, Singh and her colleagues found 17 risk factors for dementia, late-life depression, and stroke that overlapped with one another.—
Cathy Cassata,
Health,
24 Apr. 2025
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His childhood animal playmates return to remind him about what matters in life, basically harassing him into becoming a better person.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
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More fascinatingly, this behavior was most commonly exhibited when the dolphin’s playmate could see it, suggesting the smile to be an intentional, friendly gesture.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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With Assad's ouster in December, Halaby, now 29, returned to his neighborhood of Jobar, on the edge of Damascus, to watch a backhoe unearth the remains of at least eight of his comrades from a mass grave.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2025
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Another seems to half-pass out, either from exhaustion or shock, while tending to a wounded comrade.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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Some of Williams’s associates ultimately said that it could be seen that way.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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This could be in relation to a collaborator, business associate, or in your personal life.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Simpson as clone Walton gamely boasts a long, scraggly wig and barely-there sarong until he’s rescued by his shipmates.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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The North Koreans’ former shipmates remembered them showing videos of military parades and their leader, Mr. Kim, giving speeches.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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In Asia, the story would take hold that Beijing was never able to peacefully persuade its compatriots to join a greater China.—
RANA MITTER,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Nor could the authors conclude definitively that the chimps were deliberately consuming ethanol-rich fruits and sharing it with their compatriots.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Schoolfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolfellow. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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