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Recent Examples of high school
Herbs, who began running in high school and has since completed nine marathons, was running the Maine Coast Marathon when things started to take an unfortunate turn.
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Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
In fact, the Chamber’s 2025 New Hire Readiness Report shows that 84% of hiring managers believe today’s high school graduates are not ready for the workforce, and 80% say young hires are less prepared than their predecessors.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Cam Skattebo, the former zero-star recruit out of high school, believes he should have been drafted in the first round.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
After high school, Doyne began her work after meeting a young girl in Surkhet, Nepal, whose life was ravaged during the country’s decades-long civil conflict.
—Allie Torgan, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
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Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
In fact, the Chamber’s 2025 New Hire Readiness Report shows that 84% of hiring managers believe today’s high school graduates are not ready for the workforce, and 80% say young hires are less prepared than their predecessors.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Cam Skattebo, the former zero-star recruit out of high school, believes he should have been drafted in the first round.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
After high school, Doyne began her work after meeting a young girl in Surkhet, Nepal, whose life was ravaged during the country’s decades-long civil conflict.
—Allie Torgan, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 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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Understanding this is necessary to keep hope for the fight to improve public school history education.—
Taylor Cassidy,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Every child in our public school district needs regular access to healthful food regardless of their family’s income level.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Sep. 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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Nearly three-quarters of the 119 million girls out of school worldwide are of secondary school-age, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Girls were notably banned from secondary school the next month, meaning that online education became one of the last avenues of hope.—
Zahra Nader,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Carter Taylor of Kansas City, an elementary school educator and legislative chair for the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, said efforts to privatize education should scare parents.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
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Written by Mahdi Asghari Azghadi and directed by Puya Mofid, this searing Iranian drama unfolds within the confines of an elementary school, where a teacher’s harsh discipline leaves a young Black student traumatized and voiceless.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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In the series, Meester will portray Abby, the middle school nemesis of Bell's character Joanne.—
Amy McCarthy,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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There, the pilots really were given a map of the Korean peninsula torn out of a middle school textbook.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Lawyers representing charter school interests argued such funding is constitutional as charter schools are held accountable by the state and fit the Kentucky Constitution's definition of a common school.—
Hannah Pinski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 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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On the philanthropy front, a group of primary school students from the inland Guizhou province, who have never seen the ocean, traveled with their teachers to Shanghai to visit the exhibition and experience the seaside for the first time.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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This was in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, where her mother was an administrator at a primary school that prioritized Aboriginal children.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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