grade-schooler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grade-schooler
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The main houses showed several signs that young children had recently been present, including toys, clothes and notebook pages with the crude drawings of a grade-schooler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
A Dodger hadn’t gone nine since José Lima in 2004, when Yamamoto was a grade-schooler back in Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
As a grade-schooler, she cherished her “dead-pet collection,” a plexiglass case of dearly departed cicadas, beetles and butterflies.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Brown, then a grade-schooler living in a two-bedroom house with three siblings, her parents and her grandmother, marveled but didn’t dare ask questions.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2022
And only heaven itself could help a Coalwood grade-schooler if he said “liberry” instead of “library.”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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