prep school

noun

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One of the schools found out about it and notified the prep school; the boy was told to withdraw all the college applications that had that essay in it. Bettina Zilkha, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025 History Built to resemble a New England prep school, Southbury was built to be more than four times the size of Yale University’s 373-acre central campus in New Haven. Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025 The prep school and Ivy League graduate wrote that the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and that profits of major corporations continue to rise while life expectancy doesn’t, according to the bulletin. Michael R. Sisak and Mark Scolforo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024 Starting with 1998’s Rushmore, his sophomore effort, set at a prep school, Anderson began keeping track of his own props, costumes and other crucial objects. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for prep school

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1829, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of prep school was in 1829

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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prep%20school. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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