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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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A comprehensive review by Yi Ru and colleagues examines this issue in detail, looking at how a wide range of immune cells behave throughout the wound healing process.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Even so, this book—the first comprehensive Debs biography since Nick Salvatore’s Bancroft Prize-winning classic of 1982—is competently researched, colorful and occasionally moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"We want to create a comprehensive, transparent, reliable framework that publishers and authors can fall back on," Esme Dennys, the initiative's co-founder, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

She said that her organization represents the “most comprehensive program for farmed seafood,” partly because it covers the “entire aquaculture production chain.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Never lose sight of the fact that our special responsibility as landscape artists applies primarily to the broad, comprehensive scenery of the Exposition,” Olmsted wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

Among those in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich List, there were 34% from independent schools compared with 12% from comprehensives.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2019

For one thing, they are more likely than comprehensives to be located outside city centres, with more space to grow.

From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015

Katharine Birbalsingh has taught in London comprehensives for over 10 years and this diary of a typical year in one of those schools will confirm every parent's worst fears.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011




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