former student

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In Delhi, Anand recalls a former student who moved to Canada two years ago.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

He becomes the host to a former student named Sabiha, who has fled her home because she is suspected—wrongly, she claims—of killing her husband in a fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

But it is a trait that Darnold has long exhibited, according to his high school coach Jaime Ortiz, who remembers his former student as a wildly gifted but quietly driven kid.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

One former student, Andrea Corona, 39, said her time at Trade-Tech helped her land a job as a technician at Volkswagen of Downtown L.A. — a role she’d held for about a decade.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

A former student of Hiatt’s at the Harvard School of Public Health, Kochi had begun to reexamine his program under the constant pressure from Farmer.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French