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Recent Examples of high school
Currently, players are eligible after finishing their high school career, and players in international markets are signed through a separate system and bonus pool removed from the draft process.
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
The percentage of adults in San Diego County who have graduated from high school has risen from 84% in 2005 to over 95% in 2023, the year with the most recent available data.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2026
On my way into central London yesterday, two boys were traveling back from high school on the train and had opened up their laptop to watch Portugal play DR Congo.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
All rights reserved Three years ago, Randy Livingston told nearly every Southeastern Conference basketball program about Allen Graves, a high school player whom Livingston coached with the LivOn AAU program.
—Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
The percentage of adults in San Diego County who have graduated from high school has risen from 84% in 2005 to over 95% in 2023, the year with the most recent available data.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2026
On my way into central London yesterday, two boys were traveling back from high school on the train and had opened up their laptop to watch Portugal play DR Congo.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
All rights reserved Three years ago, Randy Livingston told nearly every Southeastern Conference basketball program about Allen Graves, a high school player whom Livingston coached with the LivOn AAU program.
—Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
- public school
- junior high school
- senior high school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- middle school
- common school
- primary school
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The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 June 2026
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Cothiere and Hill are both active public school teachers.—
Austin Horn,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2026
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Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.—
Brandon Downs,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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The beginning of Operation Homecoming, the return of POWs, was scheduled for the same night as the junior high school’s Valentine’s Day dance, Saturday, February 10, 1973, just a few weeks after the official signing of the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s military involvement in Vietnam.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 May 2026
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The couple has decided where the 12-year-old royal will attend secondary school.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
16 June 2026
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One such report is on an investigation into the strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 165 people on the first day of the war, most of them children.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
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In 2015, the actress joked to People that her husband had more cachet with their daughter’s peers than her when Charlotte was in elementary school.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
20 June 2026
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Griffin filed a federal defamation lawsuit in Nevada on Monday, June 15, saying her middle school classmate Joleene Altum made false allegations against Griffin, according to documents obtained obtained by USA TODAY.—
Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Many of his teammates, in fact, rib him about being drafted in 2016, when many of them were in middle school, or younger.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
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Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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The regulations include draconian restrictions on women and girls, including bans on education beyond primary school and what women can wear.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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The young Brooks’s disciplinary problems began with fights in primary school and culminated in his expulsion from college for threatening a policeman with a firearm.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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