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Recent Examples of boarding school
Its nonprofit arm, Wild Impact, runs a boarding school for Maasai families that educates close to 600 children.
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Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
The school is based on the author’s real boarding school experience at Indian Springs Boarding School in Alabama.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
Meanwhile, Roper’s worried about his English son in an English boarding school, in a distant land.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
Based on the devastating dystopian novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro, this wistful drama explores the lives of Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth, three friends who grow up at a boarding school.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
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Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
The school is based on the author’s real boarding school experience at Indian Springs Boarding School in Alabama.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
Meanwhile, Roper’s worried about his English son in an English boarding school, in a distant land.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
Based on the devastating dystopian novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro, this wistful drama explores the lives of Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth, three friends who grow up at a boarding school.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarding school
- prep school
- preparatory school
- high school
- public school
- elementary school
- common school
- secondary school
- school
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Over five years, the film follows two young Black teenagers in Chicago who get recruited to play basketball at an upscale prep school.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Olympians Angela Ruggiero and Julie Chu came from Choate in the 1990s, so when Knight, who was born in Idaho and began playing hockey on boys teams as the family moved to Illinois and then New Hampshire, was ready for prep school.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
20 Feb. 2026
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Sugar Bowl Resort confirmed that many of the people on the trip were connected with Sugar Bowl Academy, an elite ski and snowboarding preparatory school in Donner Pass.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Founded in 2007, Pacific Ridge School serves over 650 students as an independent, nonprofit, college preparatory school for grades six through 12.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Dec. 2025
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Evidently, Ruth is meant to represent all that is good and pure for eschewing the luxe life for the smaller ambition of being a high school English teacher.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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Godfrey began Cactus Bowls, which sells açai bowls, this past August, taking the trailer to high school games and cheer competitions.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Wu said the city’s public school system will be closed for a second straight day on Tuesday, and libraries and community centers won’t open until noon.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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Nearly a hundred people attended a vigil at a South Side elementary school for the 17-year-old dancer who was killed in a car accident early Thursday morning.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Five elementary school students and two drivers were injured in a serious collision involving a school bus and a work van on Thursday afternoon in Vernon.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2026
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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
12 May 2025
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Oleh Kiper, the head of Ukraine’s Odesa region on the Black Sea, said drones damaged civilian and energy infrastructure facilities in the region, including a secondary school and an energy company’s warehouses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The secondary school has just 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to the province’s website.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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More Del Mar schools are scheduled to host assemblies before the end of the school year.—
Del Mar Times,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Under one interagency agreement, the Health and Human Services Department will take over grant programs that send millions of dollars to schools for safety and community engagement efforts.—
Annie Ma,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Boarding school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarding%20school. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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