grade school

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The two know each other from grade school years earlier but hadn’t been friends, and now they’re gawky teenagers practiced in the supreme virtue of adolescence, which is to be cool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

It’s been speculated, notably by MSNOW’s Chris Hayes, that Trump was looking at the Mercator Projection map that we probably all remember from our grade school geography textbooks.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Recall from grade school fraction math that you may cancel diagonally; the two “sales” disappear, as do the “assets.”

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

For Schneider, there was the time a jazz combo played in an assembly at grade school.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

There are pictures of her and Olga all over her walls and dresser: at the park, in a photo booth, grade school, prom, graduation, dinners.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez