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prep school

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as in preparatory school

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Recent Examples of prep school The streamer released a trailer for Crew Girl on Wednesday, giving audiences a look at the coming-of-age story about an elite East Coast prep school’s teenage rowing team. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026 True to form, the story is narrated by an unscrupulous wanna-be novelist named Bret Easton Ellis (Igby Rigney), a closet case lusting away for the new hunk at his cruel prep school. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 The wild visuals bring a psychedelic new kineticism to the web-swinging, and teenage Miles Morales is a compellingly modern hero, a sweetly arty Brooklyn kid fish-out-of-watering through a fancy prep school. — Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Aug. 2026 The teams were a mix of prep school and MIAA student-athletes, playing five 12-minute quarters to level the playing time. — Justin Barrasso, Boston Herald, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for prep school

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In 2011, the school became Bethesda Academy, a college preparatory school for boys in grades 6-12.

— Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026
This new spinoff of The Handmaid’s Tale follows Agnews (Chase Infiniti of One Battle After Another) and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), young women at Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

Definition of preparatory school

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In the area that later became the United States, as many as 600,000 Native Americans were enslaved during this period, with many more stolen from families into the twentieth century through boarding school, fostering, and adoption programs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Anne demonstrated decades ago that a princess could leave the immediate royal bubble, attend boarding school and develop considerable independence.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of boarding school

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Despite those difficulties, Fiesta Hispana remained free and continued its support of educational opportunities for high school and college students and nonprofit organizations.

— J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
But the changes came after the early signing day for high school recruits and just before the transfer portal opened — not much time for new staffers to assess FSU’s personnel and fortify its roster.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of high school

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The schools will experience a temporary (one-year) ban from using artificial intelligence for all students through eighth grade, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced last week.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
His high school, college and NFL jerseys hang in the hallway of the only school in town (his 2019 graduating class of 23 people is considered big here).

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of school

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New York City's public school students are scheduled return to the classroom next week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
New York — New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of public school

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Seventy percent of Gen Z women who started playing sports continued through the end of high or secondary school, compared with 62% of Baby Boomers.

— Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

In 2020, a sheriff’s deputy shot trade school student Andres Guardado, 18, in the back several times, killing him.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Whether students are considering college, trade school or another path altogether, families increasingly want evidence that the choice will pay off.

— Jason St. Angelo, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of trade school

Noun

The Cowboys immediately involved him in free agency and draft prep.

— Zak Keefer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Unlike tasting events held in spaces with kitchens attached, Tower Bridge Dinner has commissary tents on the West Sacramento side of the bridge, with limited cooking and prep options.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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