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Recent Examples of secondary school
To land a good job after secondary school, students in Guyana take an exam administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council.
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Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register, 21 Jan. 2026
Factors that contributed to New Hampshire’s appeal include low non-medical drug use, high secondary school completion rates, and a nearly 10% drop in homelessness.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
His family encouraged him to enroll at a technical secondary school, which taught engineering skills alongside the standard curriculum.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2026
Teraline has since returned to school, completing her secondary school degree and is now at university studying law.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
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Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register, 21 Jan. 2026
Factors that contributed to New Hampshire’s appeal include low non-medical drug use, high secondary school completion rates, and a nearly 10% drop in homelessness.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
His family encouraged him to enroll at a technical secondary school, which taught engineering skills alongside the standard curriculum.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2026
Teraline has since returned to school, completing her secondary school degree and is now at university studying law.
—Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 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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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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More than half of respondents (52%) with primary school aged children expressed support for the introduction of robotaxis in their city.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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From primary school curricula, to the construction of high schools, to the funding of research at elite universities, education and politics are awkwardly bound up in the United States—and therefore resistant to transformation or even evolution without considerable drama.—
Eric Holcomb,
Time,
16 Jan. 2026
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Evidently, Ruth is meant to represent all that is good and pure for eschewing the luxe life for the smaller ambition of being a high school English teacher.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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Godfrey began Cactus Bowls, which sells açai bowls, this past August, taking the trailer to high school games and cheer competitions.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
26 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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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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The announcement Tuesday was accompanied by bagpipe music from the Chicago Stockyard Kitty Band, and a procession of St. Christina grammar school students.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
19 Nov. 2025
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“Secondary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20school. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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