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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 When the emergence of a serial killer targeting teens coincides with the arrival of a new student, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), suspicion and intrigue (and cocaine) become the name of the game. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2026 One professor is struggling with funding cuts and getting grants for his students to research one of the oldest long-term studies in the world. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026 Bowling is in her early 30s and a final-year student at California State University East Bay, according to the outlet. — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026 It was also reported Friday that Howard unenrolled the students about a month after offering voluntary early retirement buyouts to 600 eligible employees. — Matt Brown, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for student

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One student has described the moment a fellow pupil ran into their classroom and informed them that a teacher had been shot, during Friday’s deadly shooting.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Moreover, pupils get the chance to gain hands-on experience with opportunities to take photography classes in Scotland and study social media in Tokyo.

— Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026

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Prominent conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro is listed as senior counsel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
But jobs are really bundles of tasks, some more amenable to automation than others, according to Stanford professor Charles Jones, a leading scholar of how AI will affect growth.

— Matt Peterson,Kate Rooney, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

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