preparatory school

noun

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as in prep school

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Recent Examples of preparatory school 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 The trailer depicts the duo navigating Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, where obedience is instilled into the young female students. — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026 Sugar Bowl Resort confirmed that many of the people on the trip were connected with Sugar Bowl Academy, an elite ski and snowboarding preparatory school in Donner Pass. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 20 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for preparatory school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preparatory school
  1. prep school
  2. boarding school
  3. secondary school
  4. elementary school
  5. primary school
  6. prep
  7. school
  8. high school
Noun
  • The new Canadian romance series follows Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) trying to start over at an elite prep school after a family scandal.
    — Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Set at a New England prep school during World War II, A Separate Peace paints a messy, complex depiction of adolescence and the loss of innocence.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of prep school
Noun
  • The latter grew up at the elite Lundsberg boarding school, where his mother worked as a cleaner.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
  • His mother was placed with a Mormon foster family in 1952 under the church’s student placement program; his father, from Broken Arrow, also went through boarding school, joined the Marines, and met his mother in San Diego.
    — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of boarding school
Noun
  • 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
  • In 2014, Boko Haram took almost three hundred girls from a secondary school in Chibok; the whereabouts of some ninety are still unknown.
    — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • One elementary school counselor will split time between the four elementary schools to work on these initiatives.
    — Morgan Matzen, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Virginia school shooting Police responded to a reported shooting at an elementary school in Virginia on Wednesday morning, local and federal officials said.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • The impact on schools is especially striking, says Marie Gorette Mutuyimana, a primary school teacher of 28 years who crosses the river twice every weekday to get to and from work.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The group’s harsh interpretation of Islamic rule excludes girls and women, who make up half of Afghanistan’s estimated 50 million people, from any meaningful education or employment opportunity, beyond primary school.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • Behind the scenes, the kiosk automates food prep, heating and delivery.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Wilson, a former South Florida prep standout, had an interception in the preseason opener but didn’t do enough to win a backup cornerback job.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of prep
Noun
  • The school did not mention Stephens or specify a reason for the change in its announcement.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The increasing chances of being taken, whether one is in a church, mosque, school, on a trip to the capital Abuja or resting at home, is a grim reality that should not be the case given Tinubu’s firm campaign pledges.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of school
Noun
  • Frodin has a year left in high school and doesn’t know her plans after that.
    — Brian Mahoney, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Here is the schedule and scoreboard for Week 3 games for Orlando area high school football teams.
    — Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of high school

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