grade school

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Kaley said she first got hooked on YouTube and Instagram in grade school.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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

Salary was an afterthought for Buffett, whose own Berkshire stock portfolio had been accruing gains since Abel was in grade school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 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

By the time they were in grade school, close-order drill was as natural as breathing and as hateful as hell.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck