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
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
The YouTuber preps the helicopter, checks the instruments, and takes off, enjoying the freedom of ultralight flight while relying on just a few controls.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 30 Oct. 2025
Inside the Curriculum Part college-prep seminar, part academic classroom, and part behind-the-scenes immersion in luxury hotels, the Young Hoteliers Academy blends theory with practice in a way few high school programs attempt.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Jimmy Fallon Fallon has to prep hard for when Swift goes on The Tonight Show Monday.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
The YouTuber preps the helicopter, checks the instruments, and takes off, enjoying the freedom of ultralight flight while relying on just a few controls.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
What started as a line to prep and repair post-procedure skin after treatments like lasers and peels has since become so much more.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 30 Oct. 2025
Inside the Curriculum Part college-prep seminar, part academic classroom, and part behind-the-scenes immersion in luxury hotels, the Young Hoteliers Academy blends theory with practice in a way few high school programs attempt.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep
Verb
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The city should immediately assemble a litigation team to prepare to fight the inevitable attempts by Trump to block their receipt of federal funds.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The multi-position experience, said Craft, helped prepare Mougey for an NFL scouting-and-GM career.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Various agencies including the State Department have also paused disbursing funding for critical services for other refugees, such as the home, job and school assistance the Afrikaners are poised to receive.—
NPR,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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The spokesperson said Kapahulehua was fired in January 2022 after the allegations surfaced, adding that school officials notified authorities.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Jesuit was founded in 1963 as the capital region’s only all-boys Catholic college preparatory school and has a student body of 953 as of the current school year, according to its website.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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According to multiple sources, including a letter from the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida and a statement from The Webb School, a college preparatory school in Tennessee, the Hardin family’s home in Hunt, Texas, was washed away by floodwaters while the family was inside.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Blue beautifully calibrates Edward's transformation, aided by Jason Orlenko's costume design, moving from a prep school graduate's outfit to a slinky look in the final scene.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Others will go to a prep school with an eye toward a college soccer scholarship.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the book, an unnamed narrator moves into the Kennedy dorm room once occupied by Foster Dade, who had transferred to the boarding school in 2008 but was later expelled due to a scandal that the narrator investigates over the course of years.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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Taking place in 2008 and present day, Foster Dade is described as a sophisticated mystery set at an East Coast boarding school that explores privilege, scandal, sexuality and masculinity amid the rise of social media, millennial anxiety and pharmaceuticals.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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While the department already consists of head of technical recruitment and analysis Maximilian Hahn, sporting director Mark Noble (whose remit is the academy), European scouts Georges Santos and Antonio Tramontano, and first-team scout Adrian Clarke, there is a clear gap at the top.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Like the rest of the new 2025 backers, FirstTracks is coming into Two Oaks Ventures, which owns the MLS team and operates its academy, its MLS Next Pro franchise and Q2 Stadium.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Prep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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