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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Fitting into prep school is hard enough, but Julia makes a quick enemy of Damion, a tutor who just happens to be the great-nephew of Julia’s former neighbor.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026
There, Teagan must navigate the choppy waters of her elite prep school Easton Academy and its all-boys crew team.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of prep school

Noun

The glorious grain of midcentury film captured them in posh Kensington, the hardscrabble East End, a Yorkshire farm, a children’s home, a boarding school.

— Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
The year is 1986 and the place is a girls boarding school in the Aburi Mountains of Central Ghana.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of boarding school

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Students carry out a blocking protest at the Cesar Baggio secondary school in Lille on September 29, 2026.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
The killing took place last October at the secondary school in Selangor, near Kuala Lumpur, defense attorney Kitson Foong said, per the Independent.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of secondary school

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Then in 1989, an assailant attacked an elementary school in Stockton, California, using an assault rifle to kill five people and wound 29, prompting public outcry and calls to restrict such weapons.

— Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
One of Miami’s most prominent private high schools made an offer to buy an active elementary school site from Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of elementary school

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This week, as Spanish children across the country started their school year, the Reina Sofia primary school in Ceuta did its best to prepare for a normal first week, too – getting the front entrance clean and putting photos of teachers on the wall.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
In each session, tutors also assist students with their homework assigned by their primary school.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of primary school

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Staff skipped the sanitizing step when washing cutting boards at the meat prep table.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Here’s what to know about who may benefit from debt consolidation, where to find debt consolidation loans, plus how best to prep before taking one out.

— Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of prep

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Critics note the change would mean the sun rises an hour later on winter mornings, leaving more children traveling to school and commuters, construction workers, farmers and others heading to work before daylight.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of school

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Suspensions and expulsions are associated with negative outcomes, including lower educational achievement, decreased likelihood of graduating high school and depression.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
However, the rule doesn’t apply to college athletes from the high school class of 2022 who did not redshirt as freshmen.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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