schoolchild

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Recent Examples of schoolchild 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 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolchild
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
  • Harris enlisted actress Molly Shannon, who revived her beloved Saturday Night Live character, Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
  • When Greta Thunberg first downloaded Instagram in June 2018, the Swedish schoolgirl used the app to post pictures of herself posing with her rescue dog, Roxy.
    Amelia Tait, WIRED, 6 June 2019
Noun
  • One of the best deals on last-minute tickets to F1 Las Vegas is at Ticket Network, which is offering THR readers an exclusive $150 off orders of $500 with code THR150 or $300 off $1,000 and up with code THR300.
    Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Book readers will remember these figures played an essential role in another battle at the Ministry between Voldemort and Dumbledore.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the film, young witches and wizards from each house gather around long tables for meals and ceremonial events — much like the students at Christ Church, a college at the University of Oxford.
    Diana Pearl, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Great educators are working hard to make a difference in our students’ lives and our district.
    Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Paris Reuters — The father of a French pupil whose account of the use of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a class on free speech indirectly led to the teacher’s brutal murder went on trial on Monday accused of association with a terrorist network.
    Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Inver Grove Heights schools currently receive $710 per student, more than $1,000 below the per pupil operating levies of nearby school districts in Rosemount, South St. Paul and West St. Paul.
    Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 25 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 2 Dec. 2024.

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