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schoolchild

[skool-chahyld] / ˈskulˌtʃaɪld /




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Every schoolchild learns how larger European empires, including Russia, divided up the country among themselves in the 18th and 19th centuries, temporarily erasing it from the map.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a Monday statement, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong said China and Japan were working toward a constructive and stable relationship, and expressed his regret over the death of the Japanese schoolchild.

From Los Angeles Times

He lectured a schoolchild’s correct spelling of “potato” at a spelling bee, getting it wrong as “potatoe.”

From Los Angeles Times

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization.

From New York Times

He remembers being instructed, as a schoolchild, to stand waving along the route of the royal motorcade.

From Los Angeles Times