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Recent Examples of junior high school
Today Vineyard is an international body of churches, but at the time one of its only chapters met in Dad’s old junior high school.
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Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
The boys in our junior high school classes never went with us; they were involved in after-school sports.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
At six, the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department gathered in the cafeteria at the junior high school for its weekly meeting.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
The boys in our junior high school classes never went with us; they were involved in after-school sports.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
At six, the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department gathered in the cafeteria at the junior high school for its weekly meeting.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
- high school
- senior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- elementary school
- middle school
- trade school
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Marshall started training in Muay Thai, a martial art, after high school and began a career as a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter while taking classes at her local community college.—
Elaine Pofeldt,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Nearly five months after Frisco, Texas track star Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death at a high school competition, members of the public are continuing to pressure local authorities to release video of the attack.—
Julia Bonavita , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
13 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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Charter schools are created as public school options within the public school setting that are managed by independent boards.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Around 80% of public school elementary and secondary teachers identify as non-Hispanic white, according to a Pew Research Center report from last year.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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During a soccer game in secondary school, Kamara accidentally fouled his friend, who fell and broke his arm.—
Sophia Li,
NPR,
17 Aug. 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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Every girl in my elementary school wanted them.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Officials have pointed to the success of the Mason, a full-inclusion elementary school that has served the community for decades.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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In this program, families of elementary, middle school and high school children come to a local Target, shop for school clothes and hygiene products of their choice and Assistance League pays for their purchases.—
Jessica Peralta,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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Last year’s grants included projects such as math games for elementary students, a stream table to model erosion and deposition at a middle school, 3D printers for a high-school industrial technology program and broadcasting equipment for a middle school.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
18 Sep. 2025
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It was always expected that my siblings and I would either go to college or trade school.—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
15 Sep. 2025
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Wesley Gratzer earned his FFA American Degree by way of Wyotech, a trade school focused on auto and diesel skills in Laramie, Wyoming.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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