schoolchild

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Recent Examples of schoolchild 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 Take the first siege of Sevastopol, an event every Russian schoolchild knows about. Susan Richards, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2014 See All Example Sentences for schoolchild
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolchild
Noun
  • Likewise, schoolboy Martin Johnson.
    Peter Carline, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • As an Oviedo resident and schoolboy, joining Gijón’s academy certainly brought scrutiny from schoolmates.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This season, fluorescent pink, blue and white formed a rational yet romantic palette — a vision of a young schoolgirl poised to step into the real world.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, there’s been little doubt about who police believe is responsible for the 12-year-old schoolgirl’s gruesome death.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And so trusting in that, and trusting that what will happen eventually to the work is that my love of reading will propel me, will push me to make something that a reader will also want to read and or enjoy reading or be devastated by.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The material contained on this site is intended to inform, entertain and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally or any sort of professional advice.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Gunterman is immersed in local student journalism as the executive director of the Indiana High School Press Association and the faculty adviser of Franklin College's student newspaper.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Schools may not have more than one of their students on the ballot each week.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The display area matches the size of a human pupil and achieves a resolution beyond 25,000 pixels per inch (ppi), which is about 150 times denser than most smartphone screens.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And the coach and his pupils deserve blame, even if some of the calls were atrocious (the pass interference at the end of the Giants game on Riley Moss tops the list).
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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