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Recent Examples of schoolkid
The latter film explores the dramatic effort to save a group of schoolkids stranded in a cable car in a remote area of Northern Pakistan after a high-tension wire snapped, leaving them dangling almost a thousand feet above a valley.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
Change affects nearly 30 million schoolkids The new rules will change meals served to about 30 million students enrolled in the National School Lunch Program.
—Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
Imagine the type of traveler who might buy out Fawn Bluff: perhaps an extended multigenerational family, with schoolkids clamoring for their spot in the bunk beds and teens trying to claim the lake cabin (god help us all).
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2025
Fast forward to 2049: schoolkids step off the Metro at Expo/Bundy, returning from a museum trip.
—Jonathan Hale, Daily News, 14 June 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
Change affects nearly 30 million schoolkids The new rules will change meals served to about 30 million students enrolled in the National School Lunch Program.
—Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
Imagine the type of traveler who might buy out Fawn Bluff: perhaps an extended multigenerational family, with schoolkids clamoring for their spot in the bunk beds and teens trying to claim the lake cabin (god help us all).
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2025
Fast forward to 2049: schoolkids step off the Metro at Expo/Bundy, returning from a museum trip.
—Jonathan Hale, Daily News, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolkid
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Would that every schoolchild could stand on the grassy knoll for a quiet minute, pondering the imponderables.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Provincial transport department official Siboniso Duma said in a statement that 11 people, including a schoolchild, died at the scene, although that was according to preliminary information.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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Browne is intellectual, playful, cheeky — the domain of schoolboy dreams and art world fancy.—
Dave Schilling
Contributing
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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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.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
26 May 2026
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With a teacher husband at home, five kids that include a teenage son who is now towering over everyone in the house (and, apparently, eating said entire house), two teenage daughters, a preteen daughter, and a very loud kindergartener, there is no escape.—
Chaunie Brusie,
Parents,
22 June 2026
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City Council Speaker Julie Menin’s historic proposal to invest $1,000 in every public school kindergartener’s college and career future, with $3,000 going to those with the highest economic needs, does just that.—
Jennifer Jones Austin,
New York Daily News,
22 June 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
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Despite being a high achiever, Veena Dinavahi struggled with anxiety and depression as an adolescent.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
20 June 2026
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These provisions also do not guarantee that an adolescent will be granted an exception.—
Sunaya Krishnapura,
STAT,
10 June 2026
Noun
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My preschooler lays out his own outfit for the next day.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
18 June 2026
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After receiving medication, the preschooler appeared to be sleeping peacefully on his mother's chest.—
Nicky Zizaza,
CBS News,
8 June 2026
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Take a bunch of kids who’ve never been out of East Tennessee.—
Holly Gleason,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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Your support will help ease the financial burden and give Pam and her kids a sense of hope and security.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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“Schoolkid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolkid. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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