schoolchild
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Any schoolchild knows who came up with the telephone or the sewing machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Every British schoolchild learns about King Harold, William the Conqueror and 1066.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
He remembers being instructed, as a schoolchild, to stand waving along the route of the royal motorcade.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
Recently James Robinson, a prominent televangelist, compared Trump to a "little elementary schoolchild."
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2022
A high school student might be left out if you spoke about “monetary policy,” and a schoolchild might not even follow a conversation about “the economy.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
One year before the nation would collapse in the Great Depression, the world’s first billionaire gave out dimes to schoolchildren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Indonesian schoolchildren prayed for rain on Thursday as another firefighter lost his life battling drought-fuelled blazes consuming forests and peatlands and blanketing parts of Southeast Asia in a sickening haze.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The shop owner who stocked pens and books for schoolchildren was, a neighbor tells her, the “kindest man.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Sally Phillips, actor and narrator of the newly reissued Winnie-the-Pooh audiobooks, launched the campaign earlier by reading to schoolchildren at a phone box library in Chartham, Kent.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
As soon as he said that, the columns of schoolchildren standing under the blazing sun erupted in excitement.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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