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high schooler

American  
[hahy skool-er] / ˈhaɪ ˌskul ər /

noun

  1. a student enrolled in the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade, or sometimes the ninth grade; a secondary school student.


Example Sentences

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But “a death is a death,” Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Los Angeles Democrat, told me, whether the life is lost in minutes in a high schooler’s bedroom, or slowly extinguished after years of homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times

Spieth doesn’t hide his desire to win the tournament where he was a Sunday contender as a 16-year-old high schooler 13 years ago.

From Seattle Times

This month she picked up a Tony nomination — her fifth, and one of eight for the show — for her funny, poignant performance as Kimberly Levaco, a high schooler in suburban New Jersey whose fictional, rapid-aging illness has given her the body of a septuagenarian.

From New York Times

As a high schooler, Wu played the solo part in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” and she became a subscriber to the Boston Symphony while she was studying at Harvard University.

From New York Times

Here’s what Roy, a high schooler in Los Angeles, shared:

From New York Times