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as in students
one who attends a school generally there are 20 pupils in each class
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as in adherents
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another to pupils of the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, the shores of Walden Pond are hallowed ground
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Recent Examples of pupils Already, as the second picture shows, the ewes’ pupils had morphed into rounds. —
Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 Restricting student screen time at LAUSD The board passed a resolution barring screens for kindergarten and first-grade students and capping usage for older pupils. —Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Just as your brain effortlessly combines visual data from two pupils about a palm’s width from each other, the VueBuds' AI meshes two separate camera images into one. —New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2026 Founded in 1990 by Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, the former Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, the school serves roughly 360 pupils ages 10-18. —Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026 These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms. —Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026 Everything old feels new again, down to the iconic yellow-eyed logo, displayed up on a catwalk lined with TV screens, in which the static cat-eye pupils first wriggle, then reveal themselves as slinky, silhouetted dancers. —Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026 The district lost thousands of students this school year, will close seven schools this summer as a result and expects enrollment to drop by another 10,000 pupils in the next five years. —Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026 The superintendent also said her district has lost 72 students since December, which has hurt funding that was dependent on the numbers of pupils and meals served. —ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 Restricting student screen time at LAUSD The board passed a resolution barring screens for kindergarten and first-grade students and capping usage for older pupils. —Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Just as your brain effortlessly combines visual data from two pupils about a palm’s width from each other, the VueBuds' AI meshes two separate camera images into one. —New Atlas, 21 Apr. 2026 Founded in 1990 by Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, the former Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth, the school serves roughly 360 pupils ages 10-18. —Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026 These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms. —Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026 Everything old feels new again, down to the iconic yellow-eyed logo, displayed up on a catwalk lined with TV screens, in which the static cat-eye pupils first wriggle, then reveal themselves as slinky, silhouetted dancers. —Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026 The district lost thousands of students this school year, will close seven schools this summer as a result and expects enrollment to drop by another 10,000 pupils in the next five years. —Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026 The superintendent also said her district has lost 72 students since December, which has hurt funding that was dependent on the numbers of pupils and meals served. —ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
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Many involve access problems for, or harassment of, students with disabilities.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Her memories of Fang Klein run deep, having met as students at San José State University in 1996, where Fang Klein earned her bachelor’s degree in dance with a minor in musical theater.— David John Chávez, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
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He’d been struck that the Milwaukee branch of the adherents to his cause were forever boasting about their superior sanitation systems.— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
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TikTok obsessives, wellness-culture adherents, and misinformation junkies all end up in need of care.— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
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As one of the nation’s most consequential legal thinkers and scholars, Heather Gerken has long directed her fierce intellect toward defending free and fair elections, a strong civic architecture, and the rule of law.— Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
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Legal scholars hinge that false opinion on their false understanding of grammar.— DP Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
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Despite a massive group of followers cascading down and surrounding the royal couple, one beachgoer went viral after she couldn't be bothered to dismiss the UV index for the day.— Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
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Reese Witherspoon went viral last week — nearly five million views on Instagram and countless more when her comments were shared across platforms — for suggesting that her followers embrace and learn how to use artificial intelligence.— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
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Just imagine singing along with a club full of other disciples.— David Harris, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2026
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In Rome, Leo washed the feet of others, as the story of the Last Supper records Jesus doing for his disciples.— Bill Barrow, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
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