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junior high

NOUN
generally, 6th-8th grades
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Were you junior high class president, or were you in the Boy Scouts?

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

He only studied music in junior high school but continued playing and touring through 2025.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

In junior high, my bedroom walls were covered in Michael Jackson and David Bowie posters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

And then he talked about Greenland, teasing his remarks as if he were standing on a junior high school stage introducing an eighth-grade production of “We’re No Angels.”

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

David and I are in the same grade, even though he’s taller and heavier and looks like junior high already.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor




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