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Recent Examples of secondary school
Raducanu attended Newstead Wood School, a highly selective secondary school in Orpington, Greater London.
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Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher.
—William McCorkle, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
More than 200 million years after this creature last roamed what is now the United Kingdom, scientists have formally identified it as a new species — and named it after a secondary school physics teacher in Wales.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
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Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher.
—William McCorkle, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
More than 200 million years after this creature last roamed what is now the United Kingdom, scientists have formally identified it as a new species — and named it after a secondary school physics teacher in Wales.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary school
- elementary school
- primary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- senior high school
- middle school
- grammar school
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Authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of a Long Island PTA mom accused of siphoning more than $50,000 from an elementary school over a three-year span while she was employed as a New York Police Department officer.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Al-Shayeb hopes its value will be widespread, giving centralized information to anyone from experienced ecologists to interested elementary school classrooms.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.—
Sue Halpern,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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Mill Creek football coach Josh Lovelady says Caleb Downs’ rise from athletic high school freshman to first-round NFL draft pick was like a puzzle.—
Jack Leo,
AJC.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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And his favorite high school team, the Spartans, swept a two-game series from Sun Valley Poly with their own great pitching to move three games up in the Valley Mission League race with four to play.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2026
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The first day of New York City public school will be unusually late this fall, according to the official 2026-27 school year calendar released Tuesday — forcing families to scramble for child care at the end of summer break.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Catawba County commissioners voted Monday to merge the county’s three public school systems, starting a yearslong consolidation despite strong opposition from educators and residents.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
21 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 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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Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.—
Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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That happened one day during a middle school game.—
Tony Baranek,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Newport Mesa Unified School District has voted to ban e-bikes at all elementary and middle school campuses beginning in the 2027-28 school year.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 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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“Secondary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20school. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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