grade school
Americannoun
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grade schools
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of grade school
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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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
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
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
“No,” she said, so matter-of-factly, like she was singing a song in grade school, like nothing at all mattered to her.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
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