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Recent Examples of middle school
And despite its familiarity to nearly anybody who has taken middle school English over the past eight decades, the story still retains the power to shock.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 May 2026
For example, Denver’s high school coaches run clinics during the summer for middle school students in the city who want to play sports like lacrosse and track and field that don’t have middle school-run teams.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
Parents at The Riverside School for Makers and Artists, one of the Upper West Side schools, reported learning of the proposal to close their middle school when representatives from the Center School came to tour their facilities.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
Online sports betting and gambling has exploded in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court ruling opened the floodgates, becoming commonplace not only on college campuses but also among high schools and middle school students.
—Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 1 May 2026
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 May 2026
For example, Denver’s high school coaches run clinics during the summer for middle school students in the city who want to play sports like lacrosse and track and field that don’t have middle school-run teams.
—The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
Parents at The Riverside School for Makers and Artists, one of the Upper West Side schools, reported learning of the proposal to close their middle school when representatives from the Center School came to tour their facilities.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
Online sports betting and gambling has exploded in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court ruling opened the floodgates, becoming commonplace not only on college campuses but also among high schools and middle school students.
—Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- trade school
- senior high 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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Since then, the Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Crooms, a Seminole County public school, has had boys volleyball for 16 years but scored its first district title with its 1A District 5 final victory over Cornerstone.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.—
Scott W. Stern,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2026
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Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 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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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 surviving children of Tumbler Ridge, meanwhile, attend classes in trailers, as their rural mining town’s empty secondary school awaits demolition.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
29 Apr. 2026
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Smaller children from a nearby elementary school were availing themselves of climbers, slides, and beams.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Calling for the accountability of the war crimes that have been committed through our military action against Venezuela and Iran, specifically regarding double taps and the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school.—
Kevin Fixler
May 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 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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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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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20school. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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