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elementary

[el-uh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] / ˌɛl əˈmɛn tə ri, -tri /


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The National Transportation Safety Board opened an ongoing investigation into Waymo after a robotaxi struck a child in Santa Monica, Calif., near an elementary school.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

This ultimate step will allow definitive claims to be made, potentially unlocking a new understanding of how the universe works at the most elementary level.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

In that bitter January darkness of a Manchester elementary school parking lot, several dozen voters clustered in line beside me to get into the gym just as the polls opened.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Among these workers, the district has issued “non-renewal notices” to 291 with teaching credentials, including 181 elementary teachers, and, at the middle and high level, 15 English teachers and 45 social science teachers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

As we have seen, editions of Sacrobosco’s Sphere, the elementary textbook for the Ptolemaic system, and of Peuerbach’s Theoricae, the more advanced textbook, dropped off sharply after 1610.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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