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The victim had just finished playing soccer in the park with a schoolmate, also 13, when the tattooed man approached them with a knife around 3:30 p.m., cops said.
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
Susie Harmon, her chum since boarding school at Chadwick (where schoolmates included Jann Wenner and Liza Minnelli), lived in Arizona, but Susan joined her every Christmas night at her mother’s in Los Angeles.
—Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
To support the idea that L.J. was combative, White provided a copy of a screenshot taken from a school chat forum in which the boy cursed at his schoolmates.
—Molly Parker, ProPublica, 5 June 2024
Michael Spender was a schoolmate of W. H. Auden and the brother of a different poet, Stephen Spender.
—Maya Jasanoff, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
Susie Harmon, her chum since boarding school at Chadwick (where schoolmates included Jann Wenner and Liza Minnelli), lived in Arizona, but Susan joined her every Christmas night at her mother’s in Los Angeles.
—Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
To support the idea that L.J. was combative, White provided a copy of a screenshot taken from a school chat forum in which the boy cursed at his schoolmates.
—Molly Parker, ProPublica, 5 June 2024
Michael Spender was a schoolmate of W. H. Auden and the brother of a different poet, Stephen Spender.
—Maya Jasanoff, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
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“Schoolmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolmate. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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schoolmate
noun
school·mate
-ˌmāt 
: a companion at school
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