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Recent Examples of schoolchild
Every Japanese schoolchild knows the real historical character and the peaceful era that followed.
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Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
24 Apr. 2024
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.
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Curbed Staff,
Curbed,
22 Dec. 2023
The schoolchild innocence of the alphabet is juxtaposed with the violence and instability of the historical moment.
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Mark Nowak Anne Boyer,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2023
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Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
24 Apr. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolchild
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Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.
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Ghosts of Iraqi Freedom A few days after my ride across town, on April 7, a rocket fired by militiamen landed in an empty room in a house in my neighborhood, and another killed an eight-year-old schoolboy named Siraj in nearby al-Amiriyah.
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Two years later, The Mirror, which follows a schoolgirl navigating Tehran alone, took top festival prizes.
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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.
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German news magazine Der Spiegel asks its readers.
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Some readers suggested that Clark should never return, instead taking her ball and going overseas.
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Ortega graduated from high school as an accomplished student-athlete and through his DACA status was able to earn a college degree and become a teacher.
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Some of the 32 students will head to Boston Stadium on Friday, as Norway takes on France in one of the premier contests on the entire World Cup slate to date.
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School spending per pupil fell by 9% from 2010 to 2019.
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Connecticut spends more per student on public education than almost any other state, roughly $22,700 per pupil on average, ranking in the top five states for per-pupil state spending.
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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.
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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.
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“Schoolchild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolchild. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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