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as in students
one who attends a school
generally there are 20 pupils in each class
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as in adherents
one who follows the opinions or teachings of another
to pupils of the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, the shores of Walden Pond are hallowed ground
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Recent Examples of pupils
One of the top pupils in her class, the student lives with her parents in Koreatown and dreams of one day working in the film industry.
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Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
View 1 Images A stage of sleep – reflected in the size of our pupils – is important to committing recent memories to the brain, which could be manipulated to improve cognitive function and even identify issues with being able to recall newer experiences when awake.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Through this, the team was able to see that new memories were replayed and cemented in the brain during a fleeting moment in one of the non-REM sleep stage subsets, which corresponded with the animals' pupils appearing contracted.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Keown, their younger brother, is among the current pupils.
—Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Because of the way our pupils change in response to brain activity, signaling states such as arousal, there's been some evidence that, when asleep, the eyes may offer similar clues reflecting neural processes.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Cats will adjust their eyes during the day, allowing less light to filter in, while their pupils will expand at night to allow for more light, Purina reports.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Scott worked on the movement for weeks, finally landing on an uncanny approach where his pupils roll into his head while his jaw goes slack.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
When researchers submitted their findings to Nature Methods, an anonymous reviewer pushed the researchers to add a set of cameras in each eye piece that could record the mouse’s pupils and verify the animal’s engagement and arousal.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Dec. 2024
Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
View 1 Images A stage of sleep – reflected in the size of our pupils – is important to committing recent memories to the brain, which could be manipulated to improve cognitive function and even identify issues with being able to recall newer experiences when awake.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Through this, the team was able to see that new memories were replayed and cemented in the brain during a fleeting moment in one of the non-REM sleep stage subsets, which corresponded with the animals' pupils appearing contracted.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Keown, their younger brother, is among the current pupils.
—Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
Because of the way our pupils change in response to brain activity, signaling states such as arousal, there's been some evidence that, when asleep, the eyes may offer similar clues reflecting neural processes.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
Cats will adjust their eyes during the day, allowing less light to filter in, while their pupils will expand at night to allow for more light, Purina reports.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Scott worked on the movement for weeks, finally landing on an uncanny approach where his pupils roll into his head while his jaw goes slack.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
When researchers submitted their findings to Nature Methods, an anonymous reviewer pushed the researchers to add a set of cameras in each eye piece that could record the mouse’s pupils and verify the animal’s engagement and arousal.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pupils
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Instead, school libraries have long served as vehicles to expose students to a broad array of ideas from authors who express unique, personal points of view.—
Jim Saunders,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
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Peter Ferry was passionately an author and teacher, inspiring decades of students in his English and writing classes at Lake Forest High School, a youthful crowd of many thousands that included such later famous people as actor Vince Vaughn and author Dave Eggers.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Dec. 2024
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Griswold’s story was so thoroughly accepted that, through the 20th century, no one, including academic scholars, thought to question it.—
David B. Parker,
The Conversation,
6 Jan. 2025
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This Chesapeake Bay island is so isolated that some scholars believe the accent here still retains traces of Elizabethan English, from way back when it was settled in the 17th century.—
Nicholas DeRenzo,
AFAR Media,
6 Jan. 2025
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These were composed somewhere far from Jerusalem, in a language that Jesus and his disciples would not have known, by writers who could not have been eyewitnesses.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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The Last Supper, as per the logline, is set in the days leading to betrayal, where a gathering of disciples unravels into a web of secrets and hidden motives.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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At the time, publishers had been relying on their talent to push stories to their millions of followers on the platform formerly known as Twitter.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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With over two million followers, she’s offered glimpses behind the scenes of her show and shared moments from her life at home with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.—
Erin Hill,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Pupils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pupils. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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