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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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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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In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Sep. 2024
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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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When the pandemic hit, our local public school closed its computer lab, issued my kindergartener an iPad, and never looked back.—
Abby McCloskey,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Round Lake appears to have been drawn by a kindergartner who was interrupted halfway through snack time.—
Mark Glende,
Twin Cities,
3 Apr. 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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An only child of negligent parents, Mihich identified with the Roald Dahl character Matilda, a precocious schoolgirl who learns to fend for herself against sometimes cruel adults.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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He was brought to the center as an adolescent with a broken wing (possibly due to a collision with a car) and can no longer fly properly.—
Margherita Bassi,
Popular Science,
1 Apr. 2026
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An adolescent with severe menstrual pain and vomiting may first present to a pediatrician.—
Sarah Berg,
STAT,
26 Mar. 2026
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What Mulaney didn’t anticipate was that the private tour of Elvis Presley’s former home would become the setting for one of parenting’s most unexpected conversations — explaining death to a preschooler.—
Ryan Brennan
April 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Apr. 2026
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In their off-hours, one employee was nursing an infant and homeschooling a preschooler, and another worked a second job as a real estate agent.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Choose from a big assortment of polish, gift sets, treatments and polish for kids.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The first generation of parents to have resorted, at least occasionally, to mollifying their children by putting digital screens in their hands has now seen those kids grow up.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Schoolkid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolkid. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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