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Recent Examples of elementary school
While the investigation into the motive and possible connection between the suspect and the victims continues, CBS LA has learned through a property records search that someone with the same surname as the suspect also works at the elementary school where Arti Varma worked.
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Before the restrictions, Amnesty had used destruction and burn scars visible in Planet imagery to investigate the February airstrike on an elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab, which killed at least 150 children.
—Krishna Karra, Bloomberg, 23 Apr. 2026
Deng graduated from elementary school in 1966, but the rest of her education was self-taught.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
The researchers analyzed the genomes of 350 elementary school students in Iowa who took 17 language ability tests at various times between kindergarten and fourth grade.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
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Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Before the restrictions, Amnesty had used destruction and burn scars visible in Planet imagery to investigate the February airstrike on an elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab, which killed at least 150 children.
—Krishna Karra, Bloomberg, 23 Apr. 2026
Deng graduated from elementary school in 1966, but the rest of her education was self-taught.
—René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
The researchers analyzed the genomes of 350 elementary school students in Iowa who took 17 language ability tests at various times between kindergarten and fourth grade.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
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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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People stand at the courtyard of a secondary school where an assailant opened fire, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 15, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.—
Sue Halpern,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Boston Herald,
18 Apr. 2026
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Zamora supports giving middle and high school communities the option to have an officer on campus at least part-time.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Brown played tackle football in high school at Central Heights in Richmond, Kansas, about 15 miles from Ottawa, before becoming a record-setting linebacker for the program.—
PJ Green
April 30,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2026
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Since then, 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.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Crooms, a Seminole County public school, has had boys volleyball for 16 years but scored its first district title with its 1A District 5 final victory over Cornerstone.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.—
Scott W. Stern,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2026
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Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Work on the new middle school project will begin in just a few weeks.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Five middle school students are being hailed as heroes after jumping in to stop their school bus when their driver lost consciousness.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.—
Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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