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Recent Examples of elementary school
Her mother was an elementary school teacher, but her father, an educational consultant and University of South Florida professor who served as a city councilman and mayor of Tampa suburb Temple Terrace in the 1970s, authored more than 25 textbooks.
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Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Gardner’s kids, Lucca and Golden — elementary school students with a passion for ginger beer — were Whipper Snapper and Lil Deputy Doo-Doo Diaper, respectively.
—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
In 2019, Bramlett met William while working as his elementary school behavioral specialist.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
For years, teachers and parents at a Liberty elementary school have worried that something in and around their campus may be making people sick, leading to a high number of cancer diagnoses.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
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Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Gardner’s kids, Lucca and Golden — elementary school students with a passion for ginger beer — were Whipper Snapper and Lil Deputy Doo-Doo Diaper, respectively.
—Marah Eakin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
In 2019, Bramlett met William while working as his elementary school behavioral specialist.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
For years, teachers and parents at a Liberty elementary school have worried that something in and around their campus may be making people sick, leading to a high number of cancer diagnoses.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementary school
- secondary school
- primary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- middle school
- senior high school
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So was the girl leaving a village to attend secondary school, and the family accessing clean water for the first time.—
Michael J. Nyenhuis,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The Jam formed in 1972 while all three band members were in secondary school, and their first album titled In the City released in 1977.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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Over time, dolphin teeth have allowed the villagers to pay for a new church, a sea wall and an extension to the local primary school.—
Prianka Srinivasan Matthew Abbott,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The public transit system that primary school students rely on is the same one that parents, employees, medical patients and college graduates rely on.—
Holly Arnold,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Mar. 2025
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Prior to The Bee, Smith covered high school sports at the Citrus Heights Sentinel.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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About 800,000 of California’s 1.76 million high school students participate in school athletics.—
Jessica Garrison,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025
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The bill also would divert $50 million from other state tax revenues and use them to maintain and improve public school facilities, aiming to provide an alternative to property tax levies that typically fund these repairs and updates.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2025
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The event — staged by Orlando Health and the Orlando Sports Foundation, which raises money to find cures for cancer — showcased top seniors from 15 Orange County public schools.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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Douglas Higgins spent a quarter-century in real estate management before returning to his roots in education and spending 16 years as the principal and assistant principal of elementary and junior high schools in Bloomingdale, Steger and Calumet City.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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The series at the time focused on Hayley Mills, who played the title character, and her students at an Indianapolis junior high school.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Mar. 2025
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Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine 🏃🏾♂️. March 10 — Free agent negotiating period begins.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Dammers belonged to a generation that was pushed to pass the notorious eleven-plus exam and get into one of the United Kingdom’s supposedly superior grammar schools.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Earlier this month, PEOPLE reported that nearly a dozen middle school students were hospitalized after eating THC gummies while at their New York campus.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Having spent more days in a hospital bed than in a classroom during her years in leukemia treatment, her middle school mornings started to fill with hesitation and tears.—
Elizabeth Austin,
Time,
26 Mar. 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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About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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