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Recent Examples of middle school
This backpack has light-reflecting detailing, helping cars and other hazards see you at night, and the 16-inch laptop sleeve has been keeping my devices safe since middle school.
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
Roche, a 36-year-old father of three, coaches a middle school team in Arvada.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
With her all the way is Sarah, her best friend since middle school, as well as another bestie, Heidi.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026
Quick-thinking middle school students in Mississippi kept their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a four-lane highway.
—Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
Roche, a 36-year-old father of three, coaches a middle school team in Arvada.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
With her all the way is Sarah, her best friend since middle school, as well as another bestie, Heidi.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026
Quick-thinking middle school students in Mississippi kept their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a four-lane highway.
—Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- trade school
- senior high school
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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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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
Noun
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Authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of a Long Island PTA mom accused of siphoning more than $50,000 from an elementary school over a three-year span while she was employed as a New York Police Department officer.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Al-Shayeb hopes its value will be widespread, giving centralized information to anyone from experienced ecologists to interested elementary school classrooms.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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The contest has three student categories for grades K-8, grades 9-2 and college/trade school students.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2026
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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
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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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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20school. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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