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Daily, adults and schoolkids take in exhibits about chattel slavery and Jim Crow, Reconstruction and the civil-rights movement, and leave with a deeper understanding of American history in all its darkness and its promise.
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David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
What makes the book such a joyful surprise are the unique stories Wolf shares – meeting first lady Eleanor Roosevelt as a schoolkid, his tenure living with future Hollywood icon David Lynch.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
But culturally—in New York, at least—a better comparison might be to the corner pizzeria swiftly doling out slices on paper plates to schoolkids, budget-minded parents, and late-night revellers.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
But to a Catholic schoolkid accustomed to seeing priests as untouchable vessels of piety — so naïve, right?
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
What makes the book such a joyful surprise are the unique stories Wolf shares – meeting first lady Eleanor Roosevelt as a schoolkid, his tenure living with future Hollywood icon David Lynch.
—Steve Baltin, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
But culturally—in New York, at least—a better comparison might be to the corner pizzeria swiftly doling out slices on paper plates to schoolkids, budget-minded parents, and late-night revellers.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
But to a Catholic schoolkid accustomed to seeing priests as untouchable vessels of piety — so naïve, right?
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolkid
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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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Louisiana just enthusiastically passed a law designed to convert every schoolchild in the state to Christianity.—
Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
24 June 2024
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Tempest, grateful for his schoolboy French, paused to talk to her.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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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
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In Gaines County, the epicenter of the measles outbreak in Texas, only 82% of kindergartners have been fully vaccinated.—
Dave Wessner,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The measles vaccination rate fell to 92.7% for kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year, according to data from the CDC.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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The early education provider will be for infants starting at six-weeks old, toddlers and preschoolers.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Here’s everything families can expect from the upcoming series for preschoolers.—
Clea Haran,
Parents,
27 June 2025
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The World Health Organization says that 81 percent of adolescents worldwide do not get enough physical activity, noting that rates of sedentary behavior in young people tend to rise as their country develops economically.—
Henry Abbott,
The Atlantic,
12 July 2025
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Another study said that the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate for adolescents and young adults increased to 66.3 percent between 2016 and 2022 — a number that jumped by 17 percent per month in 2020 alone.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 July 2025
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This is especially good for those staple items kids are always using – notebooks, binders, folders, colored pencils, pens and more.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
12 July 2025
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Does a person with this much contempt for texts by day insist on reading aloud to his kids at night?—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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“Schoolkid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolkid. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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