at school
idiom
British
: attending school as a student
My parents won't let me get a job while I'm at school.
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Many people now working in senior positions in U.K. financial services were still at school or college at the time of the bailout, but institutional memory of the event remains exceptionally strong, not least among U.K. regulators.
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Ian King, CNBC, 4 June 2025
With students back at school after the weekend, high school girls decided to take matters into their own hands.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2025
Becoming a mother now means confronting a grab bag of voices — on phone screens and on Reddit, but also at school pickup and church — that are critical of the medical establishment, including people skeptical about vaccines and fanatic about drinking raw milk.
—Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 1 June 2025
As a graduating scholarship student of St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University in the U.K., Doel found Corman’s job posting for an assistant on a jobs board at school.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 31 May 2025
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Ian King, CNBC, 4 June 2025
With students back at school after the weekend, high school girls decided to take matters into their own hands.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2025
Becoming a mother now means confronting a grab bag of voices — on phone screens and on Reddit, but also at school pickup and church — that are critical of the medical establishment, including people skeptical about vaccines and fanatic about drinking raw milk.
—Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 1 June 2025
As a graduating scholarship student of St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University in the U.K., Doel found Corman’s job posting for an assistant on a jobs board at school.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 31 May 2025
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“At school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20school. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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