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Adventures Beyond This World centers on the journey of Ryusukue (voiced by Zach Aguilar in the English dub), a junior high school student living in Tokyo who visits his rural-dwelling teenage cousin Tomomi (voiced by Ren Holly Liu in the English dub) for summer vacation.
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025
My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
—Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
As the mean girl of the town's junior high school, Amber uses her popularity to hurt Kat instead of treating her nicely.
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025
My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
—Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
As the mean girl of the town's junior high school, Amber uses her popularity to hurt Kat instead of treating her nicely.
—Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
- high school
- senior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- elementary school
- middle school
- trade school
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Sue Hendrickson — who did not have a high school diploma — received her first university credentials in the form of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois Chicago.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2026
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The story follows a recent high school graduate who spends the summer with her absent mother and comes to know her in a different light, adult-to-adult.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
7 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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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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In December 2019, school district officials sent documentation of Agan’s firing, along with details of their investigation, to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California’s educator licensing agency, as state law requires for public school teachers who resign or are fired for misconduct.—
Holly McDede,
ProPublica,
12 May 2026
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This school year alone, the TEA reports that Texas saw 75,000 fewer public school students.—
Andrea Lucia,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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Not only is Irish the Republic’s first official language, and compulsory from primary through to secondary school, it is required for entry into the civil service, and it is supported by its own radio station (Raidió na Gaeltachta) and TV station (TG4), and a range of promotional bodies.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 May 2026
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After completing secondary school, Keiko moved to the United States to attend Stony Brook University.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 May 2026
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The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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When those experiences are limited, children enter elementary school already behind.—
Tina Dello Russo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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She’s served in the legislature since 2025, and her children attend a CMS elementary school.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
10 May 2026
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In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates recalls learning that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in the corridor of his Baltimore middle school.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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In 2025, lawmakers passed similar restrictions for Georgia elementary and middle school students.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
5 May 2026
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An online streamer raising money to build a trade school program for underserved kids was hit by a car during his cross-country fundraising walk — and his livestream captured it all.—
Kaitlyn McCormick,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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The contest has three student categories for grades K-8, grades 9-2 and college/trade school students.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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