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school friend

American  
[skool frend] / ˈskul ˌfrɛnd /

noun

school friends plural
  1. a friend from school.


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Pratt writes how utterly taken he was with Montag, whom he first met through high school friend and “Princes” star Brody Jenner, who was then dating “Laguna Beach” alum Kristin Cavallari.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

I fell in love with an old school friend.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 12, 2025

Zara, 11, from Gorleston, wrote What Can I Do? telling the story of her school friend moving away to Peterborough.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

"Growing up in south-east London, playing football in cages was a social thing with our mates," Dajon Golding, a school friend of Eze's and now a striker at Scottish League Two side Elgin City, says.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

Cloke Rayburn, a school friend of Corcoran’s and one of those who first notified police, said that Corcoran “is a real straight guy—definitely not mixed up in drugs or anything like that.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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