elementary
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As city revenues shrank, spending on elementary and middle schools alike dropped by more than 10%, though local military forces received millions of dollars in special funding.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
As an advocate for the local library told me, by the next day, all the children at the local elementary school had heard about Gamble.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
A onetime elementary school teacher in Watts, Gordon entered law school after seeing how violence impacted her students.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
One time Max and I joined a game called untag on the blacktop—not elementary school tag, but a whole different version, with crazy-complicated rules.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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