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Recent Examples of prep school
When Buckley arrived, a quarter of Yale students were legacies, and a third had gone to prep schools.
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
By the turn of the century, even elite prep schools were starting to recruit international players.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
Long associated with prep schools and privilege, it’s been slower than other sports to shed its exclusivity.
—Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
From September, Louis will be in the prep school where his older sister Princess Charlotte is now.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
By the turn of the century, even elite prep schools were starting to recruit international players.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
Long associated with prep schools and privilege, it’s been slower than other sports to shed its exclusivity.
—Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
From September, Louis will be in the prep school where his older sister Princess Charlotte is now.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep school
Noun
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Founded in 2007, Pacific Ridge School serves over 660 students as an independent, nonprofit, college preparatory school for grades six through 12.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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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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Transitioning away from direct federal oversight would represent yet another transformation for Haskell, which has seen many different iterations since its inception in 1884 as a strict boarding school where Native children were forcibly assimilated into American culture.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
24 June 2025
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Raised by a single mother in a poor neighborhood in Baltimore, Boone received a scholarship to a prestigious New England boarding school with the help of a school counselor.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
19 June 2025
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The after-school program paid 15 high school juniors and seniors from across the county to attend get togethers at OCMA biweekly to learn about curatorial practice and all facets of arts administration.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Clayton’s competitiveness and toughness developed as a high school football star, along with his clutch play on college basketball’s biggest stage continued to elevate his NBA stock.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 June 2025
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The brothers focused on school, worked casual jobs, and graduated college.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
26 June 2025
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Niche helps students and families simplify the education journey and partners with schools and colleges to help streamline operations, build brand awareness and achieve enrollment goals.—
Terina Allen,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Lockhart: Connecticut’s 2025 legislative session brought major wins for public schools: historic investments in special education via a $30 million Special Education Expansion and Development grant and $40 million Excess Cost Grant annually.—
Question & Answer,
Hartford Courant,
30 June 2025
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Supporters said the proposal would expand education options for families across the country, offering alternatives to students in areas with lower-performing public schools.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2025
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In some cases, the similarities between the Ivy League and prestigious secondary schools are not coincidental, but the result of deep historical ties.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The most recent ruled that Maine’s tuition assistance to parents in districts lacking public secondary schools can be used at religious institutions.—
Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Most trade schools are for-profit, and both trade schools and the broader for-profit higher education sector—which has a history marred by fraud, abuse and controversy—seem poised to thrive under Trump and a Republican Congress.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Undergraduates are said to have ever more pre-professional orientations at the expense of the liberal arts; one professor ruefully described the place as the world’s most élite trade school.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Site work generally refers to the prep work that happens after property is secured but before structure construction begins.—
Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin,
Southern Living,
24 June 2025
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To make liquid eyeliner stay put, your eye makeup look all begins with the prep.—
Angela Trakoshis,
Allure,
23 June 2025
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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep%20school. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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