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Recent Examples of prep school
His father was a church organist who taught in Lutheran elementary schools, and Marty attended a Lutheran prep school.
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Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Earlier this week, Newsweek reported that Barron Trump was starting a real-estate firm with a friend from his Palm Beach prep school and an Idaho real-estate developer.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025
President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, is taking steps to start a high-end real estate business with a prep school classmate and a Republican congressman’s cousin, Newsweek reported.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2025
Advertisement The former valedictorian of an elite Baltimore prep school and Ivy League graduate shared posts on social media from an eclectic stream of populists, entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, centrists and disruptors.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Earlier this week, Newsweek reported that Barron Trump was starting a real-estate firm with a friend from his Palm Beach prep school and an Idaho real-estate developer.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025
President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, is taking steps to start a high-end real estate business with a prep school classmate and a Republican congressman’s cousin, Newsweek reported.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2025
Advertisement The former valedictorian of an elite Baltimore prep school and Ivy League graduate shared posts on social media from an eclectic stream of populists, entrepreneurs, neuroscientists, centrists and disruptors.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep school
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Mauldin allegedly committed these offenses while a teacher at Nathaniel Greene Academy, a Christian, K-12 college preparatory school in Siloam, approximately 80 miles east of Atlanta.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Catholic college preparatory school is hoping the addition of new national corporate partners and an enhanced game day experience at Santa Ana Stadium will ease pressure in its ongoing fundraising efforts.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Japanese-language drama, currently seeking additional funding and festival screenings, explores the aftermath of a suicide at a Christian girls’ boarding school.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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The 12-acre site sits in present-day Fairway — formerly 2,000 acres near Turner — and served as a boarding school that housed students from 22 tribes, including the Shawnee Tribe, which required them to perform manual labor and assimilate into white Christian Culture.—
Taylor O’Connor,
Kansas City Star,
19 Mar. 2025
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State lawmakers want to slash in half funding for Advanced Placement, dual enrollment and other college-level high school classes, a move that would cost Florida’s public schools millions of dollars.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Georgia High School Association, the state’s governing body for high school sports, passed a rule the same year mandating students’ participation in athletics will be determined by their original birth certificate.—
Brooke Migdon,
The Hill,
1 Apr. 2025
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In the months since, the settlement has faced a wave of objections from athletes, schools and other stakeholders.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Hill said the schools should do the project themselves.—
Michael R. Wickline,
Arkansas Online,
3 Apr. 2025
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The bill also would divert $50 million from other state tax revenues and use them to maintain and improve public school facilities, aiming to provide an alternative to property tax levies that typically fund these repairs and updates.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2025
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The event — staged by Orlando Health and the Orlando Sports Foundation, which raises money to find cures for cancer — showcased top seniors from 15 Orange County public schools.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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So was the girl leaving a village to attend secondary school, and the family accessing clean water for the first time.—
Michael J. Nyenhuis,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The Jam formed in 1972 while all three band members were in secondary school, and their first album titled In the City released in 1977.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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The Blue Line, which was completed in 2018 and stops less than a mile from the trade school, runs from the Pineville area northeast to UNC Charlotte.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2025
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Britten, who was known by family and friends as Von, worked part time as a busboy at Red Lobster in Matteson and had recently been accepted into a trade school.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Keep leftovers and meal prep fresh with this set of five Rubbermaid food storage containers.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Sacramento Bee 916-321-1280 Joe Davidson has covered sports for The Sacramento Bee since 1989: preps, colleges, Kings and features.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Prep school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep%20school. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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