as in to prepare
to make ready in advance
the cooking time is considerably shortened if you've prepped the chicken the night before
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Recent Examples of prep
Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Needing to prep for her race, Humphries spent her first night away from Aulden this week.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
At the center of the room sat a 160-pound bluefin tuna stretched across a prep table, its silvery body nearly spanning the length of the space.
—J.m. Banks
march 3, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
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Verb
To prep this dish in advance, make the sauce as directed, without adding the eggs.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Needing to prep for her race, Humphries spent her first night away from Aulden this week.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
Come the draft, the Padres chose high school pitcher Max Fried with their first pick, then another prep pitcher, Zach Eflin.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
At the center of the room sat a 160-pound bluefin tuna stretched across a prep table, its silvery body nearly spanning the length of the space.
—J.m. Banks
march 3, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep
Verb
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With such a significant mobilization of additional forces, Defrin was asked if Israel is preparing for a broader ground incursion into Lebanon.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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Their moons have become prime targets for exploration, especially as missions like Europa Clipper and Dragonfly prepare to investigate these distant worlds up close.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
1 Mar. 2026
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Iranian state media has reported that a girls' school in southern Iran was hit in an airstrike on Saturday, killing at least 165 people and wounding dozens more.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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Artnews last June listed SVA as one of the US art schools most reliant on international students attending its graduate programs, behind only the Savannah College of Art and Design.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
2 Mar. 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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Sophomore guard Roosevelt Thomas also left for a prep school in the middle of the winter.—
Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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Got a scholarship to the prep school of Julliard.—
David Pogue,
CBS News,
1 Mar. 2026
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Patrick Finnegan began his career as an entrepreneur while struggling to fit in at a Delaware boarding school.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
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Many of the victims in Tuesday’s historically deadly avalanche on Castle Peak were mothers from Marin County, California, whose children attend Sugar Bowl Academy, a nearby private boarding school designed for skiing, according to multiple sources.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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The film won San Sebastián’s Golden Shell in September, and was the consensus choice for the Spanish film academy, who members vote on the Goyas.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Mar. 2026
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If no one ever does, a youth academy is pointless.—
Philipp Lahm,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Prep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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