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Recent Examples of primary school
This journey began when Cumming was just a young boy attending primary school in Scotland when a theater company put on a play at lunchtime.
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Emily Longeretta, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Partnering with the Irish Department of Education, the commission asked primary school students to document the folklore in their own communities.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
After leaving his post-graduate engineering job, Nye kicked off a career in comedy before landing a pilot that would land him in primary school classrooms for years to come.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
Satellite image shows that the Niger state school compound is attached to an adjoining primary school, with more than 50 classroom and dormitory buildings.
—NPR, 23 Nov. 2025
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Emily Longeretta, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Partnering with the Irish Department of Education, the commission asked primary school students to document the folklore in their own communities.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
After leaving his post-graduate engineering job, Nye kicked off a career in comedy before landing a pilot that would land him in primary school classrooms for years to come.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
Satellite image shows that the Niger state school compound is attached to an adjoining primary school, with more than 50 classroom and dormitory buildings.
—NPR, 23 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for primary school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- common school
- senior high school
- middle school
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Oleh Kiper, the head of Ukraine’s Odesa region on the Black Sea, said drones damaged civilian and energy infrastructure facilities in the region, including a secondary school and an energy company’s warehouses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The secondary school has just 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to the province’s website.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Nearly a hundred people attended a vigil at a South Side elementary school for the 17-year-old dancer who was killed in a car accident early Thursday morning.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Five elementary school students and two drivers were injured in a serious collision involving a school bus and a work van on Thursday afternoon in Vernon.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2026
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Lappe, in his first high school at-bat, delivered an RBI double.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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The second big night of high school boys hockey section tournament play again went very much according to seed.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
19 Feb. 2026
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Wu said the city’s public school system will be closed for a second straight day on Tuesday, and libraries and community centers won’t open until noon.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2026
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Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
14 Dec. 2025
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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
12 May 2025
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The former five-star prospect missed his entire senior high school season and freshman college season due to a torn ACL, reinjuring the same knee that had already been surgically repaired.—
Tony Catalina,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Feb. 2026
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This is the podcast that would make my senior high school English teacher, Mr. Bergeron, very happy.—
Richard Wagoner,
Daily News,
19 Jan. 2026
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Burrows — who also coaches his daughter’s middle school team, baseball at North Harford and formerly led the Hawks’ boys basketball team — received a call from Patterson Mill boys basketball coach and athletic director Jeroud Clark last year asking to coach those familiar faces.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Feb. 2026
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Speaking prior to the ceremony, Johnson said it will be decided by a committee at a later date in a process similar to the one used in selecting the name Legacy for the new middle school being built on Elgin’s east side.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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