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In Britain, a comprehensive school is what type of institution?

comprehensive

[kom-pri-hen-siv] / ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn sɪv /


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The jeep maker’s turnaround efforts, including deep cost cuts and a comprehensive product offensive, have begun to support earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

It added that it had "opened direct channels of communication" with Jordanian officials and had launched "comprehensive investigations to establish the full circumstances of the targeting".

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Rather than studying L. asiatica alone, Domnauer and Dentinger conducted the first comprehensive genomic analysis of the Lanmaoa genus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

One of the most comprehensive studies of California’s multibillion-dollar investment in early education programs offers evidence that the funding is paying off in academic achievement years later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I wish someone would write a good, comprehensive book of home dog medicine.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

When it comes to schools he's seen it all - from teaching maths in boarding schools, to running inner city comprehensives in England.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024

Look, CSU and all regional comprehensives in this country have a budget problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

From BASIS’s first year in 1996-1997, students who failed the comprehensives had to retake them.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2019

The critics had the better of the argument in the 1960s and 70s, when most grammar schools were converted to non-selective comprehensives.

From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015

They divorced in 1967, and she taught English at a succession of inner London comprehensives.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2013


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