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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Smith pointed out that the district provides students with breakfast and lunch, and sometimes snacks, but that doesn’t happen on the weekends, when students aren’t in school, a gap this new offering aims to fill.
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Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Lye has seen her patients who have had the flu shot bounce back more quickly and be back in school sooner than patients who have not been vaccinated.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 25 Feb. 2026
Recently, my organization documented how a particular ideological framework has taken hold in school systems across the country, reframing American history, civic identity, and even daily school culture through a narrow political lens.
—Robert Casper, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
Students at Saginaw Boswell High School who participated in anti-ICE walkouts earlier this month and their parents are pushing back against the district after receiving two days of in school suspension as punishment.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
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Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Lye has seen her patients who have had the flu shot bounce back more quickly and be back in school sooner than patients who have not been vaccinated.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 25 Feb. 2026
Recently, my organization documented how a particular ideological framework has taken hold in school systems across the country, reframing American history, civic identity, and even daily school culture through a narrow political lens.
—Robert Casper, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
Students at Saginaw Boswell High School who participated in anti-ICE walkouts earlier this month and their parents are pushing back against the district after receiving two days of in school suspension as punishment.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2026
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“In school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20school. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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