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student

noun

ˈstü-dᵊnt

Definition of student

as in pupil

one who attends a school a straight-A student at the local high school

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Recent Examples of student In the 2024-25 school year, almost 25% of Crowley ISD students were chronically absent, compared with 18% of students statewide, according to Texas Education Agency data. — Lina Ruiz october 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026 Other adolescents have also suffered life-changing injuries blamed on police weaponry during nationwide protests by high school students demanding more funding for run-down schools. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 Anger among students was palpable during a Wednesday sit-in on the Ithaca, New York, campus. — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 The social promotion of students and the idea that everybody gets a participation trophy need to go. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for student

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Blackwell was astounded that Morgan was the pupil who took the program’s mission the furthest, surpassing the efforts of NFL players and affecting people well before he’s turned 21.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
By 1976, school districts with the lowest percentage of white students, which were often our country’s poorest, had the highest per-pupil spending in America.

— Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026

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Adding to the dark absurdity of the situation was the fact that Seghers’s husband, the Hungarian Marxist scholar László Radványi, was being held in a French internment camp, on the basis that Hungary was a German ally.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
This includes — but is not limited to — professors, scholars, research assistants, students, teachers, au pairs and camp counselors.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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