as in schoolboy
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Recent Examples of schoolchild
Every Texas schoolchild deserves the best education possible.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolchild
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If only my schoolboy self had had the same experience with Dickens.Robert Johnston, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024
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The initial libel case related to Robinson making false accusations against a Syrian schoolboy who was attacked in an incident shared widely on social media.Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2024
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While Olympia, Billy and Sarah go to ask Jimmy for his security cam footage, Matty spies some schoolgirls talking about their friend’s murder.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 17 Oct. 2024
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Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.Allison Mashell Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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This book—which tours readers through projects from Texas, mountain country, the Midwest, and more—is not just a study of the work Hunt has contributed to the field.Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2024
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It also will be used to recruit and retain faculty who teach in the arts, and a portion will provide scholarships for students pursuing degrees in art history, digital media arts, creative writing, film studies and music, with an emphasis on supporting students with financial need.Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2024
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One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an old-fashioned umbrella.Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Gere, 75, plays a fictional documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife, who sits down for a final interview with one of his former pupils (Imperioli) to tell his life story.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024
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But among day students, Heff was something of an aristocrat.Mark Oppenheimer, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2024
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At the start of the school day students slip their phone into the pouch.Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Schoolchild.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolchild. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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