schoolkid

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Recent Examples of schoolkid Through the snores of travelers inches from my face and the antics of schoolkids ignoring their chaperones. Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 29 June 2024 An undercover reporter for the BBC met dealers making thousands of pounds a day selling drugs to schoolkids on socials. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024 In a theater stuffed with schoolkids, all was calm until movie actors — probing through this Arctic habitat — warily opened a door. Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024 Or the frustrated United Airlines captain who wanted to divert his flight because of unruly schoolkids in the back of the plane? Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for schoolkid 
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Noun
  • In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Noun
  • Playing for Dublin schoolboy clubs Jobstown Celtic, Maryland Boys and Lourdes Celtic, by his early teens clubs in Ireland, England and across Europe were aware of Bradley’s talents.
    Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
  • As an introverted schoolboy in Reading, England—his family had moved there from Belfast—Branagh wrote to his actor heroes, combing through old theatre magazines and charting their rise from tiny parts at the Royal Shakespeare Company to later triumphs.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But vaccination rates among children have fallen; only about 92% of kindergartners had gotten their DTaP vaccine for the 2023-2024 school year, below the 95% federal target and leaving thousands of schoolchildren vulnerable.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • This is happening as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the vaccination rate among kindergartners is dropping, and more and more parents are seeking exemptions to school vaccine requirements.
    NPR, NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl.
    Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The program is designed for preschoolers, but children of all ages are welcome.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But there is a use of color and line and form that's not found in typical preschoolers.
    Susan Spencer, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The report found that 50 per 100,000 in adolescents assigned female at birth and 25 per 100,000 in adolescents assigned male at birth received hormones.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Adding fluoride to community drinking water is credited with reducing the average number of teeth with cavities by 44% in adults and 58% in adolescents since the 1960s, the health service says.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • My family walked with Krewe of Confetti Kids on Saturday for its annual kids parade in Algiers Point.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
  • These services can range from making charcuterie trays to face-painting; providing character actors for kids parties to bounce houses.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Schoolkid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolkid. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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