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Recent Examples of secondary school
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.
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Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
If the cool girls in secondary school ranked me as pretty, then that too must have been true.
—Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
During a soccer game in secondary school, Kamara accidentally fouled his friend, who fell and broke his arm.
—Sophia Li, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
The new tax law allows up to $10,000 in tax-free distributions this year from section 529 plans to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, including private schools and religious schools.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
If the cool girls in secondary school ranked me as pretty, then that too must have been true.
—Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
During a soccer game in secondary school, Kamara accidentally fouled his friend, who fell and broke his arm.
—Sophia Li, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
The new tax law allows up to $10,000 in tax-free distributions this year from section 529 plans to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, including private schools and religious schools.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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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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Carter Taylor of Kansas City, an elementary school educator and legislative chair for the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, said efforts to privatize education should scare parents.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
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Written by Mahdi Asghari Azghadi and directed by Puya Mofid, this searing Iranian drama unfolds within the confines of an elementary school, where a teacher’s harsh discipline leaves a young Black student traumatized and voiceless.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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On the philanthropy front, a group of primary school students from the inland Guizhou province, who have never seen the ocean, traveled with their teachers to Shanghai to visit the exhibition and experience the seaside for the first time.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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This was in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, where her mother was an administrator at a primary school that prioritized Aboriginal children.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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Jim Varsallone Miami Herald 305-376-3621 Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.—
Miami Herald Staff Reports,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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Of course, that type of defense doesn’t help to explain why high school athletes can’t sign NIL deals while high school influencers, esports players, actors and musicians can.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Understanding this is necessary to keep hope for the fight to improve public school history education.—
Taylor Cassidy,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Every child in our public school district needs regular access to healthful food regardless of their family’s income level.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
15 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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In the series, Meester will portray Abby, the middle school nemesis of Bell's character Joanne.—
Amy McCarthy,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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There, the pilots really were given a map of the Korean peninsula torn out of a middle school textbook.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 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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“Secondary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20school. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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