schoolmate
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The creative-writing program featured small classes composed of students serious about writing careers, recalled Scott’s schoolmate Laurent Dubois.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Graham played Eddie Miller in the series, which told the story of a teenage boy accused of killing a schoolmate.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
“Where is Principal Dressback???” a schoolmate and friend, Karl Julian, titled a video on his YouTube channel.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
Suspicion soon fell on 20-year-old Samuel Woodward, Bernstein’s former schoolmate at the Orange County School of the Arts, who had admitted to being with him in the park the night he disappeared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
A schoolmate plopped down beside her, and two other Booker T. Washington students took the seats across the aisle in the same row.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
In Mr. Harris’s telling, long before Augustus came to rule vast swaths of the earth, he was a sickly boy named Octavius, bullied by schoolmates until the far-stronger Agrippa became his protector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He has spent most of his life in South L.A., where he was embraced by his Black neighbors and schoolmates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Being a healthy capitalist, I immediately started taking orders from schoolmates.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Have my schoolmates and I done well - too well?
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
When we enrolled in Toussaint L’Ouverture Grammar School, we were struck by the ignorance of our schoolmates and the rudeness of our teachers.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
