trade school

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Recent Examples of trade school Markets Gift this article Growing concerns about a white-collar job apocalypse are helping to turn once-sleepy trade school stocks into investor darlings. Victor Swezey, Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026 The share of teenagers considering vocational or trade school has more than doubled, from 12% in 2018 to 30% in 2024, according to JLL. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026 Reyes said her son planned to enroll in trade school to become a mechanic. Juliana Kim, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026 By having a trade school on the property, students will have the opportunity to work on productions while also getting an education. Samuel O’Neal April 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trade school
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Noun
  • Education is a local-level function and the federal department only administers roughly 10% of public school funds nationwide.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • Local public school districts will need to prepare for a new statewide ban on student cellphone use under legislation recently approved by Illinois lawmakers.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Academy and elite club teams essentially robbed prep soccer of its best players by forcing them to choose between their high school teams and elite club programs, demanding a year-round commitment and banning participation in other sports.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • The city's birth rate peaked in 2005, meaning those babies have already graduated high school.
    Chierstin Roth, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
    Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 15 June 2026
  • He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
    Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The beginning of Operation Homecoming, the return of POWs, was scheduled for the same night as the junior high school’s Valentine’s Day dance, Saturday, February 10, 1973, just a few weeks after the official signing of the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s military involvement in Vietnam.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The couple has decided where the 12-year-old royal will attend secondary school.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Griffin filed a federal defamation lawsuit in Nevada on Monday, June 15, saying her middle school classmate Joleene Altum made false allegations against Griffin, according to documents obtained obtained by USA TODAY.
    Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • Many of his teammates, in fact, rib him about being drafted in 2016, when many of them were in middle school, or younger.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • One such report is on an investigation into the strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 165 people on the first day of the war, most of them children.
    Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
  • In 2015, the actress joked to People that her husband had more cachet with their daughter’s peers than her when Charlotte was in elementary school.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • 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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“Trade school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trade%20school. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.

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