in school
idiom
US
: attending school as a student
My parents won't let me get a job while I'm in school.
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While some parents have been prosecuted for allowing children access to weapons used in school shootings – including in this case – Brown was not aware of another in which a school official had been convicted for failing to intervene.
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Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
In the ultimate win-or-go-home situation, the Cougars secured back-to-back playoff berths for only the third time in school history and the first since the 2008-09 season.
—Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2025
Videos circulating on social media showed dozens of students in school uniform running in panic across the school's basketball court, some covering their ears with their hands, apparently to protect themselves from the loud blasts.
—NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
In the ultimate win-or-go-home situation, the Cougars secured back-to-back playoff berths for only the third time in school history and the first since the 2008-09 season.
—Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2025
Videos circulating on social media showed dozens of students in school uniform running in panic across the school's basketball court, some covering their ears with their hands, apparently to protect themselves from the loud blasts.
—NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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“In school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20school. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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