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Recent Examples of elementary school
Police charged a 53-year-old homeless man with first-degree murder after the death of another man near an east Charlotte elementary school Monday.
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Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
Tallgrass will also offer 1 million square feet for commercial development including a town center and an elementary school.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
One challenge from last year was raising her younger kids, one in elementary school and two in middle school, while balancing a full-time job.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
Maybe the States even knew that Daria had been refusing to sing the national anthem ever since elementary school.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
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Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
Tallgrass will also offer 1 million square feet for commercial development including a town center and an elementary school.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
One challenge from last year was raising her younger kids, one in elementary school and two in middle school, while balancing a full-time job.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
Maybe the States even knew that Daria had been refusing to sing the national anthem ever since elementary school.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementary school
- secondary school
- primary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- middle school
- senior high school
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Nearly three-quarters of the 119 million girls out of school worldwide are of secondary school-age, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Girls were notably banned from secondary school the next month, meaning that online education became one of the last avenues of hope.—
Zahra Nader,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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On the philanthropy front, a group of primary school students from the inland Guizhou province, who have never seen the ocean, traveled with their teachers to Shanghai to visit the exhibition and experience the seaside for the first time.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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This was in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, where her mother was an administrator at a primary school that prioritized Aboriginal children.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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Jim Varsallone Miami Herald 305-376-3621 Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.—
Miami Herald Staff Reports,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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Of course, that type of defense doesn’t help to explain why high school athletes can’t sign NIL deals while high school influencers, esports players, actors and musicians can.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Understanding this is necessary to keep hope for the fight to improve public school history education.—
Taylor Cassidy,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Every child in our public school district needs regular access to healthful food regardless of their family’s income level.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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In the series, Meester will portray Abby, the middle school nemesis of Bell's character Joanne.—
Amy McCarthy,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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There, the pilots really were given a map of the Korean peninsula torn out of a middle school textbook.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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