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
  • Tempest, grateful for his schoolboy French, paused to talk to her.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • The four-part series followed a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) who was arrested after a girl in his school was murdered.
    Dory Jackson, People.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Silent Hill f will follow Shimizu Hinako, a schoolgirl from the fictional regional Japanese town of Ebisugaoka, as her town is consumed by the series' signature fog.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • All of that parliamentary time, all of that effort, just to deter the schoolgirls of England from falling in love with each other in double maths.
    Claire Lynch June 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Robinson said her books, more so than ones about white characters, resonate with Black readers.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2025
  • But, first, Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, answers readers’ questions about writing.
    Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • During center time, my students enjoy using educational toys like the Hand2Mind Numberblocks Friends One to Five and magnetic tiles—up to 48% off.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 9 July 2025
  • Instead of students presenting class projects, the event featured leading researchers from across the country standing in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • First of all, this keeps the cost down and is also helped by the larger exit pupil.
    Kat Bayly, Space.com, 10 July 2025
  • The median amount of aid received across all funds was $1,784 per pupil, according to the Policy Forum report.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 3 July 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 22 Jul. 2025.

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