as in pupils
one who attends a school a straight-A student at the local high school
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Recent Examples of students Not all disruptive students who land in special education get the EBD label. —
Laurie Stern, NPR, 26 Apr. 2026 This year’s Fellowship cohort represents school districts across 10 states, collectively supporting nearly 1,000 schools and more than 567,000 students. —Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026 About 40 students from Hancock Middle School were on board when their driver, Leah Taylor, 46, suffered an asthma attack shortly after leaving campus, according to The Associated Press. —Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026 Both students had planned to travel to Bangladesh over their summer break. —Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026 Instead, school libraries have long served as vehicles to expose students to a broad array of ideas from authors who express unique, personal points of view. —Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024 The long-term goal is to turn the 30-acre campus into a humming technology and innovation hub for students, startups, the company’s electric vehicle program and old-fashioned brick-and-mortar ventures like anchor tenant Yellow Light, the station’s first indoor eatery since 1988. —Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024 To prepare, students have mandatory culture classes. —La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024 The program grew to include 60 participants from each side, then expanded to include Arab and Jewish students in northern Israel. —Hessie Jones, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Laurie Stern, NPR, 26 Apr. 2026 This year’s Fellowship cohort represents school districts across 10 states, collectively supporting nearly 1,000 schools and more than 567,000 students. —Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026 About 40 students from Hancock Middle School were on board when their driver, Leah Taylor, 46, suffered an asthma attack shortly after leaving campus, according to The Associated Press. —Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026 Both students had planned to travel to Bangladesh over their summer break. —Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026 Instead, school libraries have long served as vehicles to expose students to a broad array of ideas from authors who express unique, personal points of view. —Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024 The long-term goal is to turn the 30-acre campus into a humming technology and innovation hub for students, startups, the company’s electric vehicle program and old-fashioned brick-and-mortar ventures like anchor tenant Yellow Light, the station’s first indoor eatery since 1988. —Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024 To prepare, students have mandatory culture classes. —La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024 The program grew to include 60 participants from each side, then expanded to include Arab and Jewish students in northern Israel. —Hessie Jones, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for students
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Already, as the second picture shows, the ewes’ pupils had morphed into rounds.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
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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
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The new, more faithful texts Library of America established have been a service to both readers and scholars, and are the ones that now appear in Vintage paperback editions.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
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Think tanks and scholars seeking to explain this moment of collective catharsis searched for causes outside Cuba.— Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Students.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/students. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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