at school

idiom

British
: attending school as a student
My parents won't let me get a job while I'm at school.

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Voters arrived before work, during breaks, and even after dropping their children at school, displaying the true value of this election. Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024 Currie is back at school now, although with about a third of the town’s buildings destroyed, life doesn’t feel back to normal. New York Times, 4 Nov. 2024 Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, more than 383,000 students have experienced gun violence at school, according to The Washington Post’s count. Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Nov. 2024 Start times in Japan were 9 a.m. when many are either at school or work. Brad Adgate, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for at school 

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“At school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20school. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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