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sophomores

  • plural
    of sophomore.
    sophomore
    noun
    a student in the second year of high school or college.

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So are more college freshmen and sophomores, in the hopes of improving their own hiring chances later on, campus career counselors say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

“We educated a lot of freshmen, sophomores, and newcomers,” Marks said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Crossroads, which starts four sophomores, received 16 points from Evan Willis and 14 from Sheppard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026

Brown President Christina Paxson said she believed the shooting happened inside a final-exam review session for a principles of economics class where most of the students in the class were freshmen or sophomores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

But it had seemed to work for the sophomores the year before, and George Morry, the usual sophomore coxswain, had put up with it good-naturedly.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown