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Recent Examples of high school
Championship three-peats are an almost mythical accomplishment for any UIL Texas high school baseball team.
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2026
But the school has established itself as a prominent high school brand, thanks in part to having Charlotte Hornets All-Star LaMelo Ball on its roster during the 2018-19 season.
—Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2026
And on TV, he’s best known for playing high school teacher Will Schuester from 2009-2015 in Ryan Murphy’s musical series Glee.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
The 19-year-old has graduated from high school and is now getting job training.
—James Taylor, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2026
But the school has established itself as a prominent high school brand, thanks in part to having Charlotte Hornets All-Star LaMelo Ball on its roster during the 2018-19 season.
—Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2026
And on TV, he’s best known for playing high school teacher Will Schuester from 2009-2015 in Ryan Murphy’s musical series Glee.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
The 19-year-old has graduated from high school and is now getting job training.
—James Taylor, CBS News, 19 Feb. 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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Wu said the city’s public school system will be closed for a second straight day on Tuesday, and libraries and community centers won’t open until noon.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2026
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Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
14 Dec. 2025
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The former five-star prospect missed his entire senior high school season and freshman college season due to a torn ACL, reinjuring the same knee that had already been surgically repaired.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Feb. 2026
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This is the podcast that would make my senior high school English teacher, Mr. Bergeron, very happy.—
Richard Wagoner,
Daily News,
19 Jan. 2026
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Oleh Kiper, the head of Ukraine’s Odesa region on the Black Sea, said drones damaged civilian and energy infrastructure facilities in the region, including a secondary school and an energy company’s warehouses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The secondary school has just 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to the province’s website.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Nearly a hundred people attended a vigil at a South Side elementary school for the 17-year-old dancer who was killed in a car accident early Thursday morning.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Five elementary school students and two drivers were injured in a serious collision involving a school bus and a work van on Thursday afternoon in Vernon.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2026
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Vinny Sigala saw the neighborhood start to change throughout his years in middle school and high school.—
Andrés Soto,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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As longtime college math faculty in San Diego County, we were taken aback by the news about first-year students struggling with middle school math at UC San Diego.—
Tammi Marshall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 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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More than half of respondents (52%) with primary school aged children expressed support for the introduction of robotaxis in their city.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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From primary school curricula, to the construction of high schools, to the funding of research at elite universities, education and politics are awkwardly bound up in the United States—and therefore resistant to transformation or even evolution without considerable drama.—
Eric Holcomb,
Time,
16 Jan. 2026
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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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