elementary
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It’s difficult to go from elementary school and childhood—where everyone is roughly the same—to middle school and adolescence, when everyone is growing up at different rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Inside were my elementary school report cards, two programs from concerts I played as a percussionist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and other assorted evidence of a childhood.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Adams made high-degree-of-difficulty catches look elementary, like foregone conclusions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Two weeks into his brother’s trial, Collins was in class when their sister Chloe picked him up at the elementary school and took him to their grandmother’s house.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The driver hands me an envelope with the logo of an elementary school in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Vocabulary lists containing elementary
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