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Recent Examples of junior high school
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.
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
The film, based on Koushun Takami’s novel of the same name, centers on a group of students in junior high school as they are forced to fight to the death by Japan’s totalitarian government.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
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.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025
My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
—Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
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Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
The film, based on Koushun Takami’s novel of the same name, centers on a group of students in junior high school as they are forced to fight to the death by Japan’s totalitarian government.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025
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.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025
My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
—Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 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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Academy and elite club teams essentially robbed prep soccer of its best players by forcing them to choose between their high school teams and elite club programs, demanding a year-round commitment and banning participation in other sports.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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The city's birth rate peaked in 2005, meaning those babies have already graduated high school.—
Chierstin Roth,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 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 two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
23 June 2026
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Cothiere and Hill are both active public school teachers.—
Austin Horn,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2026
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At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The couple has decided where the 12-year-old royal will attend secondary school.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
16 June 2026
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.—
Mark Kennedy,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.—
Mark Kennedy,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
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One such report is on an investigation into the strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 165 people on the first day of the war, most of them children.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
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In 2015, the actress joked to People that her husband had more cachet with their daughter’s peers than her when Charlotte was in elementary school.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
20 June 2026
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Griffin filed a federal defamation lawsuit in Nevada on Monday, June 15, saying her middle school classmate Joleene Altum made false allegations against Griffin, according to documents obtained obtained by USA TODAY.—
Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Many of his teammates, in fact, rib him about being drafted in 2016, when many of them were in middle school, or younger.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
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More than 90% of the children in the student advocate program were accepted into college, trade school or the military after graduating high school, according to program records.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 June 2026
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With only about a month left before graduation, eligible high school seniors across Los Angeles County still have time to claim scholarship funding worth up to $1,500 to pay for college, trade school or other education expenses.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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