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Recent Examples of high school
Three years proved to be too much time away for Loyola Academy’s former head football coach John Holecek, who will return to lead the Ramblers next season, according to a Tuesday news release from the Wilmette high school.
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Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
While the first two seasons focused on the characters in high school, the new season takes place five years after the Season 2 finale.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Daughter Nancy Haver said her mom graduated from high school in 1936 and her family’s farmhouse was electrified in 1938.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
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Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
While the first two seasons focused on the characters in high school, the new season takes place five years after the Season 2 finale.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
Daughter Nancy Haver said her mom graduated from high school in 1936 and her family’s farmhouse was electrified in 1938.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 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
Noun
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Nurse Heidy Justiniano had not decided who to vote for while already in line outside a public school in Lima.—
Franklin Briceño,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Nurse Heidy Justiniano had not decided who to vote for while already in line outside a public school in Lima.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 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 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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People stand at the courtyard of a secondary school where an assailant opened fire, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 15, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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Our contract enabled the school district to implement mandatory recess for elementary school students; codify smaller class sizes; expand access to honors, arts, music and sports; and establish dual language schools in the Black community on the West and South sides.—
Stacy Davis Gates,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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Jarvis and Rosen first rubbed elbows in elementary school.—
Richard Johnson,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Vargas points to a significant move made by the Los Angeles Unified School District last year, impacting all elementary and middle school campuses.—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Rodriguez, whose family adopted Sibomana-Rodriguez when the teen was in middle school, then introduced him to the family sport.—
Daniel S. Levine,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 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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Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
12 May 2025
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These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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Among the casualties of Operation Epic Fury’s first day were more than a hundred and seventy-five people, most of them little girls, at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school, in the southern city of Minab.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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