classmate
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A classmate dug her out from the wreckage.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Instead, she stands up, pops her dislocated shoulder back into its socket and grimly declares to the shocked classmate filming her, “This is Claire Bennet, and that was attempt No. 6.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Another woman said her 12-year-old daughter was a classmate of the dead girl.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
They usually don’t teach a class on what to do when a classmate can’t get a word out, or teach the teacher to wait.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Imagine, a boy who had never had even a single classmate now wanting to know about more than a thousand of them.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Fourth-grader Landon Gonzalez and one of his classmates ran the 5K at the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
But even that outdoor time was sometimes withheld when her classmates “behaved poorly”—a common disciplinary tactic that the national guidance recommends against.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
"I'm clearly grateful to have survived an experience that half of my classmates did not," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“These girls, their families were so wealthy, every year they got a new car,” Smith said of her private-school classmates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
If only our classmates in Room 26 could hear her!
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
