as in pupil
one who attends a school
a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of student
Their colleges accepted Black and female students before the Civil War.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 July 2026
As a result, a memorial pavilion, where students can play soccer, has been installed in Blakeley’s school in her honor, and a butterfly climber has been constructed at a local Bellaire park.
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Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 July 2026
Frank Banascoe, a native of Ghana and graduate student at Iowa State, made the trip to Kansas City with more than 20 classmates.
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Latif Love
july 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 July 2026
Fifty years ago, during the bicentennial, Ellis was a public affairs graduate student at the University of Texas in Austin.
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Susan Bence,
NPR,
4 July 2026
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 July 2026
As a result, a memorial pavilion, where students can play soccer, has been installed in Blakeley’s school in her honor, and a butterfly climber has been constructed at a local Bellaire park.
—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 July 2026
Frank Banascoe, a native of Ghana and graduate student at Iowa State, made the trip to Kansas City with more than 20 classmates.
—
Latif Love
july 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 July 2026
Fifty years ago, during the bicentennial, Ellis was a public affairs graduate student at the University of Texas in Austin.
—
Susan Bence,
NPR,
4 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for student
Recent Examples of Synonyms for student
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Past attempts to teach people to spot AI faces have focused on training viewers to look for visual glitches or statistical fingerprints left behind by a particular image generator, such as a wonky ear or an eye with two pupils.
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The Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes, found that in 2025, just 36% of white British pupils on free school meals achieve a Grade 4 or above in English and Maths GCSE, compared with 72% of non-free school meal pupils.
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For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era.
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Debate over the World War I-era killings, widely seen by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century, now collides with international accusations over Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
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“Student.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/student. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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