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Recent Examples of grammar school
Orban was a bright student, and his parents sent him to a selective grammar school.
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Paul Lendvai, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
Starmer grew up in Oxted, a town located 20 miles south of London and attended a free grammar school.
—Armani Syed, TIME, 2 June 2024
My earliest memory [of making art] was in grammar school in Newark, N.J.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 16 May 2024
According to the Museum of African American History in Boston, the school fell into disrepair through the years and the Black community petitioned the Boston Primary School Committee for years to desegregate primary and grammar schools in the region.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
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Paul Lendvai, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
Starmer grew up in Oxted, a town located 20 miles south of London and attended a free grammar school.
—Armani Syed, TIME, 2 June 2024
My earliest memory [of making art] was in grammar school in Newark, N.J.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 16 May 2024
According to the Museum of African American History in Boston, the school fell into disrepair through the years and the Black community petitioned the Boston Primary School Committee for years to desegregate primary and grammar schools in the region.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grammar school
- high school
- trade school
- public school
- junior high school
- elementary school
- middle school
- secondary school
- senior high school
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Mueller, who transferred to South Elgin from Wheaton St. Francis at the semester break this winter, didn’t play football his first two years of high school, concentrating on basketball and track.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Prior to The Bee, Smith covered high school sports at the Citrus Heights Sentinel.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
31 Jan. 2025
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Scholarships are available exclusively to Fox Valley high school seniors, college undergrads, trade school and graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year, according to a press release about the program.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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As artificial intelligence rakes through the tech industry and beyond, some students also see some of the hands-on jobs taught in trade schools as less vulnerable to the machine-learning takeover.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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School Board members must remember that their constituents are not only public school students and their parents, but Broward taxpayers as well.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2025
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State officials reportedly pegged the total of the hurricane’s damage for western North Carolina public schools to be about $85 million.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
24 Jan. 2025
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Students as young as 12 at the nearby junior high school also have been issued tickets.—
Jodi S. Cohen,
ProPublica,
25 Nov. 2024
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But being in your early thirties and playing yourself as a junior high school student and then surrounding yourself with age-appropriate actors who are actually going through that hellish rite of passage brings a whole new layer of cringe and humor.—
Jennifer M. Wood,
WIRED,
5 Nov. 2024
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The couple met in elementary school and began dating in high school.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Other revelations in the diary include information about Henderson’s social media accounts being suspended for praising acts of mass violence and other school shootings, including a massacre at a Nashville elementary school in 2023.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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No one in the group is a stranger—a handful of them are the surfer and skater boys that so many of us had crushes on in middle school.—
Emma Marie Jenkinson,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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This year’s finalists include two U.S. History high school teachers, a teacher of appliance and refrigeration repair at a technical school and a middle school orchestra teacher.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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In 2023, the district voted him secondary school teacher of the year.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
18 Jan. 2025
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The first day of school for elementary and secondary schools in the 2025-2026 school year is set for Aug. 14, 2025 and the last day of school is June 4, 2026.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
15 Jan. 2025
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During the early 1960s, Cher was dating a senior high school boy who lived down the street from her family.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Nov. 2024
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Our education should include practical lifetime skills such as a general financial class in junior or senior high school, civics, and unadulterated American history.—
Madeleine Parrish,
The Arizona Republic,
8 Oct. 2024
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