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Recent Examples of grammar school
After Cathedral School, a grammar school across Gough Street, closed, Sacred Heart Cathedral arranged a long-term lease and turned that lot into a too-small grass practice field for football, soccer and lacrosse, called Coach Bill Henneberry Practice Field.
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Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2025
At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school’s Halloween festivities.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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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Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2025
At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school’s Halloween festivities.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grammar school
- high school
- trade school
- public school
- junior high school
- elementary school
- middle school
- secondary school
- senior high school
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Faces off the field gives a revealing look into the thoughts and lives of high school student-athletes from the Austin area.—
Rick Cantu,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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Just before Christian started high school, Dietrich lost his job.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Once a student grew up, the account holding that starting contribution and any additional funds their family contributed could have been used to help pay for education after high school, including college or trade school.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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The young teen was thinking about going to a trade school to learn about becoming a mechanic.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Lawmakers who advocated for the program said it was designed to give public school and homeschooled students an opportunity to switch to private education.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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The bill also would have set the budget for vouchers in a line item separated from public school funding.—
Jeffrey S. Solochek,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2026
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Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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The arrest comes a day after an 11-year-old girl was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old boy inside her Bronx junior high school.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The vaccination rates vary sharply, according to public records for the 2024-25 school year, including 100% fully vaccinated at the Tootin’ Hills elementary school in West Simsbury and 98% at the Noah Wallace and East Farms elementary schools in Farmington.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2026
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Hegseth was asked for an update about the investigation into the deadly strike on the elementary school in Iran that occurred soon after the operation began.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
13 Mar. 2026
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Transportation is provided to away meets and back to the middle school.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 2026
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Pelz came into the program after going to a different middle school than the rest of his teammates.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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The species name goes to David Rhys Jones, a secondary school physics teacher in Wales who taught the lead author.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
23 Feb. 2026
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The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.—
Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Grammar school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grammar%20school. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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