classmate

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Vauhini Vara, is a tech journalist and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist of “The Immortal King Rao,” who spent several years with Mahajan at Stanford as his classmate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

It was those drawings that caught the eye of Geisel's classmate, and fellow American, Helen Palmer.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

The show follows three childhood friends whose very different lives converge at a wake for a former classmate in rural Ireland.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Then, a classmate of his, Abu Sayed, was killed in an incident that transformed demonstrations over jobs into a fight for a more democratic Bangladesh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

He was older—he had been a classmate of her brother Eleazar’s—and he became part of the family after her brother died.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling