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Recent Examples of high school
The longest field goal in Texas high school football history is 62 yards, according to Dave Campbell’s Texas Football.
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
After graduating high school, Tye attended Clemson alongside Jake.
—Adam England, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
These players were disproportionately Black, Hispanic, lower-income and non-high school graduates, the Howard Center found in its analysis of other reports and statewide studies.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
How the brand originated Christ and Metcalf launched their original venture in 2008, shortly after graduating high school.
—Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
After graduating high school, Tye attended Clemson alongside Jake.
—Adam England, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
These players were disproportionately Black, Hispanic, lower-income and non-high school graduates, the Howard Center found in its analysis of other reports and statewide studies.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
How the brand originated Christ and Metcalf launched their original venture in 2008, shortly after graduating high school.
—Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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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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Commuters on their way to work and university students ride alongside the approximately 52,000 public school students in Philadelphia who use public transit to get to school.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Only 127 of Indiana's 351 public school districts — or 36% — submitted mandatory injury data for the statewide report.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
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Mayor Shiro Suzuki, along with members of the Nagasaki City Council, 16 junior high school students, and others, are in St. Paul to commemorate 70 years of partnership as sister cities.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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Today Vineyard is an international body of churches, but at the time one of its only chapters met in Dad’s old junior high school.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 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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During a soccer game in secondary school, Kamara accidentally fouled his friend, who fell and broke his arm.—
Sophia Li,
NPR,
17 Aug. 2025
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The cost of elementary and secondary school lunches rose 3.3% in May 2025 relative to May 2024, according to a consumer price index report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.—
Jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
14 Aug. 2025
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In November 2008, when Steven was still in elementary school, KU beat MU on a touchdown pass with 27 seconds left in regulation.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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One of the women, 21-year-old Emily Wartel, said the machine reminded her of 25-cent pencil dispensers in her elementary school.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Trump and his hogmen are co-opting actual Nazi lingo from the gutter of the internet, speaking in references only Fox News viewers and Q-Anon adherents can parse, and rehabilitating the r-word as some sort of edgy pose that the rest of us learned was cruel in middle school.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Prior to the changes, Shawnee was the only middle school option in west Louisville, and only about 400 students attended the 6-12 school.—
Krista Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Indiana code requires the court to forfeit the bond of a defendant who fails to appear in court and transfer the bond amount to the state common school fund, according to the audit.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Dec. 2024
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In a TikTok video earlier this month, creator Angelina PJ recalled buying friendship necklaces in primary school for each of her friends' birthdays.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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My primary school did not have water at all.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
28 Aug. 2025
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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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