schoolchild

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Recent Examples on the Web Every Texas schoolchild deserves the best education possible. Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024 Go to Howe Caverns, the field-trip destination of every upstate New York schoolchild. Curbed Staff, Curbed, 22 Dec. 2023 The schoolchild innocence of the alphabet is juxtaposed with the violence and instability of the historical moment. Mark Nowak Anne Boyer, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023 My bladder felt like an unruly schoolchild waiting for the final bell. Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for schoolchild 
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Noun
  • If only my schoolboy self had had the same experience with Dickens.
    Robert Johnston, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The initial libel case related to Robinson making false accusations against a Syrian schoolboy who was attacked in an incident shared widely on social media.
    Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • While Olympia, Billy and Sarah go to ask Jimmy for his security cam footage, Matty spies some schoolgirls talking about their friend’s murder.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Nearly everyone devoured them – from wealthy elites to schoolgirls to enslaved people technically banned from reading.
    Jon Grinspan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.
    Allison Mashell Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That leads us to the next problem with freely available training data… Data Sets Walled Off In a lot of ways, this new problem is a lot like the problem that human readers encountered earlier in the evolution of the Internet.
    John Werner, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Wisconsin has dozens of college campuses and more than 300,000 college students.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Around 70,000 students descend upon downtown Indianapolis each fall for The FFA National Convention, the second largest annual convention in Indianapolis.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Gere, 75, plays a fictional documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife, who sits down for a final interview with one of his former pupils (Imperioli) to tell his life story.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But among day students, Heff was something of an aristocrat.
    Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
  • At the start of the school day students slip their phone into the pouch.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024

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“Schoolchild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolchild. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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