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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an old student" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who has previously attended a school or educational institution and is no longer a current student.
Example: "As an old student of the university, I often return to attend events and reunions."
Alternatives: "a former student" or "an alumni student".
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This debt was from an old student credit card which I stupidly forgot.
To an old student, he begins a confession about his father: "One must free one's soul from these parental influences".
If you have an old WordPress installation lying around -- if you are replacing an old student group website, for example -- you should archive it before proceeding.
Some philosophers were saddened by his turning to pragmatism and also to mainland European philosophy (perhaps in keeping with that, commented an old student, he began to smoke a pipe).
THIS YEAR, as student loans vault over $10 billion annually, higher-education officials and policy makers are looking harder at an old student custom - working one's way through college.
In the United States he renewed contact with an old student friend, the brilliant Pakistani economist, Mahbub ul Haq, who persuaded him to join in elaborating the Human Development Index as a rival to the World Bank's system of ranking countries by classical macroeconomic criteria such as savings rates and GNP.
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He is an older student.
Wu Jianjun, an older student who taught Li, recalls, "He was very introverted.
All students are also buddied up with an older student who understands their experience.
Or why she was naked – and with an older student and his friend.
I ran off down the street and an older student came and found me.
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