classmate
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Rather, I’d say scrolling the subreddit is like auditing a university science course where the professor prioritizes discussion, and every classmate is, for once, eager to put their hand in the air.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
"A lot of people would talk about it - it was not taboo," Sandra Symon, a high school classmate of Heuermann told the BBC.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
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
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
Later, a classmate who would spend a week working with that officer told me how every morning an inmate would fix him his coffee, passing the mug out through the bars of his cell.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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