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Recent Examples of prep school
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep school
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According to its website, Preston High School is an all-girls private Catholic college preparatory school founded in 1947 by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Mauldin allegedly committed these offenses while a teacher at Nathaniel Greene Academy, a Christian, K-12 college preparatory school in Siloam, approximately 80 miles east of Atlanta.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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If Stephanie doesn’t end her reign of terror, Charlie will send the photo to Stephanie’s parents and every elite boarding school in the area.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
29 May 2025
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Some smaller, private colleges and boarding schools have come to rely financially on foreign students, who tend to pay full tuition.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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Dear Eric: An old high school girlfriend of my husband’s (more than 40 years) creates social media posts about him and tags him, including photos of him or of the two of them together.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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The childhood Dodgers fan, who went to high school in Los Angeles, also totaled eight hits, zero walks, three strikeouts and 75 pitches in his first loss of the year.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
31 May 2025
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University collected county-level data on MMR vaccination rates for kindergarteners from each state’s health department website for the school years before the pandemic (2017-2018) and after (2023-2024).—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
2 June 2025
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In 2021, Bopp represented 8 IU students who sued the school because of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but a federal court rejected their request for an injunction.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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By then, Valdes and her brothers were attending public schools in West Palm Beach, a right undocumented children have because of a supreme court ruling which passed narrowly in the early ‘80s.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
7 June 2025
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Two of the least powerful groups threatened by the current climate of repression are public school teachers and their students, children who may never even realize what they have been kept from learning.—
Jane S. Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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In a small town in western Ireland, Jamie O’Neill is about to start secondary school, a Catholic school run by a fanatic and filled with plenty of bullies looking for someone just like Jamie to persecute.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
1 June 2025
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Their double act had begun at secondary school, in North London, where Mulcahy protected the diminutive Duffy from bullies.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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While there's still a healthy demand for community colleges and four-year university programs, the financial incentives for trade schools in most states are hard to ignore.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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Community Colleges and Trade Schools Community colleges and trade schools provide affordable, classes that equip students with workforce-ready skills in a short time.—
Diane Winiarski,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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SpaceX got the official launch order on March 7, meaning all the prep work was completed in less than three months.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 May 2025
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Our chefs begin prep work around 10:00 a.m., followed by a short break in the afternoon.—
Leslie Kelly,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep%20school. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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