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classroom

[klas-room, -room, klahs-] / ˈklæsˌrum, -ˌrʊm, ˈklɑs- /
NOUN
room where learning takes place
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Christopher Jackson was sitting in his empty classroom one day last spring when he heard a frantic pounding on the door.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

As Lolo, a foster child and star student Jeanie adopted out of her classroom, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio profits from his character’s relative normality; he just seems real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Drury said what happened in the classroom was "unimaginable".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the classroom, technology should be roped off from the teaching and learning of nontechnological concepts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

All the other kids had left the classroom, and Bat really wanted Israel to leave, too, so that he could talk to Mr. Grayson in private.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

In classrooms like Jackson’s, it’s evolved into a frontline defense against predatory debt and generational wealth gaps.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

His sentences are quoted in classrooms, cited in essays and preserved in a presidential library.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

It appears that when the roof of the upper-floor classroom collapsed, the falling rubble crashed through classrooms below, bringing their ceilings down too.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

It provides yearlong professional development to Title I school teachers, who bring museum-developed arts curricula into their classrooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Downstairs were lecture halls and classrooms, all of them empty, with clean blackboards and freshly waxed floors.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt


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