PREPARATORY SCHOOL Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

preparatory school

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Recent Examples of preparatory school The coming-of-age series centers around a group of young women attending a preparatory school in Gilead. — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026 It is set at an elite preparatory school to groom future wives, made up of daughters of Commanders, many of whom have been taken away from their birth parents, and so-called Pearl Girls, recruited from outside of Gilead. — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Agnes attends a preparatory school run by Dowd’s Aunt Lydia, who watches over the daughters of Gilead’s elite both literally and in the form of a towering statue in the school’s atrium. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026 The show follows Agnes (Infiniti), the daughter of a high-ranking commander enrolled in an elite preparatory school run by Aunt Lydia (Dowd). — Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for preparatory school

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Newell, who graduated from NSU’s prep school in Broward County, was expelled from Cornell, according to the Times’ documents.

— Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
The lobby of the Met Breuer building was filled with more blazers than a prep school on Wednesday evening, thanks to workwear brand Argent.

— Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of prep school

Noun

When the all-girls boarding school for young witches first appeared on the show, the historic Buckner Mansion in New Orleans was used for exterior shots, underscoring Coven’s spooky Southern Gothic aesthetic.

— Mekita Rivas, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2026
Earlier this year, the book’s ridiculous plot became a meme; the story follows a teen whose government name is Tookie De La Crème as she is forced into a boarding school for models called Modelland.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of boarding school

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Some primary and secondary school exams scheduled for those days were also postponed in Mauritius and on the nearby islands of Rodrigues and Agaléga, while international exams would go ahead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
The February attack on a secondary school in the small town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was Canada’s deadliest school shooting in decades, leaving eight people dead, including six children, and dozens wounded.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of secondary school

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Three children and a teacher were gunned down Thursday afternoon in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and the 16-year-old suspect was fatally shot by an armed bystander, according to police.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
Three young children and a teacher were killed Thursday afternoon in a horrific shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and a teenage suspect was fatally shot by a good Samaritan who pursued him.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of elementary school

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Her experience as a primary school music teacher reflected a wider lifelong love of music, and much of her work centred around this.

— Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 10 Oct. 2026
Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are legally prohibited from continuing their education beyond primary school.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of primary school

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Wiping cloths stored around the kitchen, dry pantry, prep tables, etc.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Shedeur Sanders, one of the most popular college quarterbacks in the country, stood above the 5-star prep prospect from Georgia and looked down, proudly.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of prep

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The cosmonauts plonked down on November 19th, 1965 in the Midlands market town of Rugby, a cultural backwater best known for the sport, the school, and wartime poet Rupert Brooke, in that order.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
In Indiana, emergency-response professionals helped expand Stop the Bleed training in schools, and the state’s Secured School Safety Grant program now offers funding for school bleeding-control programs and kits.

— Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of school

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The Emerging Filmmakers Program brings middle and high school students into screenings, discussions and workshops.

— Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
In 2017, a 16-year-old student armed with a rifle, pistols and a small grenade opened fire at a high school in southern France, wounding three students and the principal.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026

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