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Recent Examples of junior high school
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.
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Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
The boys in our junior high school classes never went with us; they were involved in after-school sports.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
At six, the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department gathered in the cafeteria at the junior high school for its weekly meeting.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
The boys in our junior high school classes never went with us; they were involved in after-school sports.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
At six, the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department gathered in the cafeteria at the junior high school for its weekly meeting.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 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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The famed director, who played the instrument in his high school band, also resurfaced the talent for the score of Jaws decades later.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Paul Martinez has seen a lot of baseball, but the long-time high school coach couldn’t wait for Friday night’s Athletics game to start.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
27 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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Elevate, which consults widely across pro and college sports, said the vehicle was fully funded by private equity firm Velocity Capital Management and the Texas Permanent School Fund (TPSF), a special-purpose government corporation that oversees a nearly $60 billion public school endowment.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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The results were about the same from the 2023-24 school year, with public school students' performance on the reading portion of the exam improving by less than a percentage point.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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According to Florida law, that includes police stations, prisons, polling places, elementary or secondary school buildings and locations where open carry is prohibited by federal law.—
Max Rego,
The Hill,
16 Sep. 2025
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Inspired by the colonial Singapore gangsters rulers, four girls, at a modern-day regimented elite secondary school form their own gang cam-recording petty acts of rebellion, led by firebrand freethinking lesbian Choo Xin Yu.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Matt Critell, principal of a Greenville elementary school, told WYFF 4 that Greenville County serves over 80,000 student meals a day, including breakfast, lunch and after-school snacks.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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The shooting took place 834 feet from a high school and also close to an elementary school, prosecutors said, explaining the additional charge.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Mac, as his middle school music teacher was affectionately known, would wrangle tickets to the opera, and the symphony, and the art museum, and the Broadway musical, for young Efrain Solis and his classmates.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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Brody's real-life wife joins the show as Abby, who's been described as Joanne's middle school nemesis.—
Samantha Highfill,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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At the moment, Geisel said, the trade school is fully staffed, but that doesn’t account for the long waitlists its programs have.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2025
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It was always expected that my siblings and I would either go to college or trade school.—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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