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Recent Examples of schoolmate
Elisabeth, grasping for a reminder of her worth now that she’s seen the way people fawn over Sue’s youth and beauty, makes a date with a former schoolmate.
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Time, 16 Apr. 2025
Confectionery whizz kid Maria is unsettled when her former schoolmate Verity joins a focus group for one of her creations.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
After Dylan is accused of being involved in the disappearance of a schoolmate, Florence resorts to a series of increasingly problematic tactics to prove his innocence.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2025
Their family, unlike the families of most of Lilian’s schoolmates, lived not in an apartment building with central heating and running water but in a one-room cottage, which was no more than a shack.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Time, 16 Apr. 2025
Confectionery whizz kid Maria is unsettled when her former schoolmate Verity joins a focus group for one of her creations.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
After Dylan is accused of being involved in the disappearance of a schoolmate, Florence resorts to a series of increasingly problematic tactics to prove his innocence.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2025
Their family, unlike the families of most of Lilian’s schoolmates, lived not in an apartment building with central heating and running water but in a one-room cottage, which was no more than a shack.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmate
Noun
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The parents of a classmate had bought a poster-size map of the world for their daughter.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
15 June 2025
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Nobody suspected anything sinister when a sixth grader at Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Japan, asked her 12-year-old classmate Satomi Mitarai to leave their classroom just before lunch break on June 1, 2004.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
15 June 2025
Noun
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Michael Jordan inspired fear and resentment in his teammates and won six championships.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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The $1 billion Club World Cup kicks off Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium with Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates facing Egyptian power Al Ahly.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
8 June 2025
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Many of his followers are schoolboys — something that has sparked concern among educators worldwide.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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Salmon remembers the day, 20 years ago, when the schoolboy Aina came to Chelsea’s attention… LTD stands for Little Thurrock Dynamos.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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LeBron James and new playmate Luca Dončić have given the Los Angeles Lake Show life.—
Jack Magruder,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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For kids, anger often shows up when something doesn't go their way—like when a playmate grabs their toy.—
Jenna Autuori-Dedic,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2025
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All of that parliamentary time, all of that effort, just to deter the schoolgirls of England from falling in love with each other in double maths.—
Claire Lynch
June 3,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2025
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Then there are the Sailor Guardians: Japanese schoolgirls who fight against the Dark Kingdom to save and protect the Princess of the Moon.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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The three woman lived in the Moscow home with two female roommates who went physically unharmed in the attack, while Chapin was Kernodle’s boyfriend and stayed over for the night.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 June 2025
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Two more roommates at the 1122 King Road residence, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, were home and unharmed.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Sep. 2024
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Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.—
Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
24 June 2024
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Eventually, though, the two women became friends, then housemates.—
B. Pietras
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
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At the series’ start, housemates Samir (Malik Ellasal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Issa (Amita Rao) and Anton (Owen Thiele) all live together in Samir’s childhood home, a single-family residence deep in Queens.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmate. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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