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Recent Examples of prep school
Mangione is a member of a prominent Maryland family, was valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and a graduate of one of the nation's leading private universities.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Gilman is one of Baltimore’s most elite prep schools.
—Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Lindor was selected out of Monteverde Academy prep school in the greater Orlando area.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
In this teen drama, Carpenter plays a prep school classmate of Black student Starr (Amandla Stenberg), who witnesses a cop shoot and kill her unarmed friend after a routine traffic stop.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Gilman is one of Baltimore’s most elite prep schools.
—Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Lindor was selected out of Monteverde Academy prep school in the greater Orlando area.
—Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
In this teen drama, Carpenter plays a prep school classmate of Black student Starr (Amandla Stenberg), who witnesses a cop shoot and kill her unarmed friend after a routine traffic stop.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep school
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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,
25 Jan. 2025
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About 600 girls up to ninth grade attend this elementary/preparatory school, located inside the Qalandia refugee camp.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
3 Dec. 2024
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Drew Barrymore Is Screaming, Then Speechless as The Facts of Life Stars Reunite for Her Birthday The Facts of Life, which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988, centered on the misadventures of a group of students at a fictional all-girls boarding school.—
John Russell,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia traded blame over a deadly strike on a former boarding school on Saturday in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have been holding territory after launching a shock incursion last summer.—
Mariya Knight,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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Mueller, who transferred to South Elgin from Wheaton St. Francis at the semester break this winter, didn’t play football his first two years of high school, concentrating on basketball and track.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Teams will use Choctaw Stadium, and high school facilities in Mansfield and Southlake.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2025
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The organization teams up with local nonprofits to put resource centers at the schools that need them.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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Colleges permit student transfers so long as a school decides to admit a student and agrees to accept all or some of their credits–in other words, a transfer is an academic matter that each school decides on its own, rather than by colluding with other colleges on allowable rules.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 Feb. 2025
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School Board members must remember that their constituents are not only public school students and their parents, but Broward taxpayers as well.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2025
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State officials reportedly pegged the total of the hurricane’s damage for western North Carolina public schools to be about $85 million.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
24 Jan. 2025
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The queen consort officially opened the Mulberry Academy London Dock, a secondary school that is part of the Mulberry Schools Trust family of schools.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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On Monday, Fort Worth Independent School District confirmed to USA TODAY that it had been notified about a substitute teacher, implying the immigration law enforcement agency should visit one of its secondary schools.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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Scholarships are available exclusively to Fox Valley high school seniors, college undergrads, trade school and graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year, according to a press release about the program.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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As artificial intelligence rakes through the tech industry and beyond, some students also see some of the hands-on jobs taught in trade schools as less vulnerable to the machine-learning takeover.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
12 Dec. 2024
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Designed for dry, brittle, or discolored nails, the three-step renewal system starts with a prep treatment, which uses glycolic acid for exfoliation.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
27 Jan. 2025
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What’s your prep plan for the show? Be with my wife and kiddo.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep%20school. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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