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Recent Examples of schoolchild
Every Texas schoolchild deserves the best education possible.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolchild
Noun
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The infamous novel is the story of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island following a deadly plane crash.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Vince was a good schoolboy footballer, represented County Durham and went on trial with Middlesbrough, the club his son would later coach.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.—
Madison Darbyshire,
Bloomberg,
13 Mar. 2026
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The al-Roj camp also houses Shamima Begum, the London schoolgirl who ran away at the age of 15 to join ISIS in 2015 and was subsequently stripped of her British citizenship.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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What’s paramount for me is that the readers will care about what happens next for the narrator.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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One event in London offered to put her book in front of nearly 800 readers.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The strike closed schools during the first few days, but the district’s five campuses had since reopened — though union representatives have said few students returned to school.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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And why is the city continuing to spend millions of dollars building a stadium that would displace BPS students, before the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled on its constitutionality?—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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Restricting student screen time at LAUSD The board passed a resolution barring screens for kindergarten and first-grade students and capping usage for older pupils.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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Just as your brain effortlessly combines visual data from two pupils about a palm’s width from each other, the VueBuds' AI meshes two separate camera images into one.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Apr. 2026
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Currently, each school district can decide how many hours of a school day students can miss and still be counted as present.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2025
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The Prince and Princess of Wales continue to remain based in Windsor, living at Adelaide Cottage within Windsor Great Park, and George, Charlotte and Louis are day students at the nearby Lambrook School.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
25 Nov. 2024
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“Schoolchild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolchild. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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