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The preparatory school has a reputation for sending students to top colleges.preparatory = getting ready
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She opened the meeting with some preparatory remarks.
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She took a preparatory course to strengthen her math skills before starting college.
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preparatory steps†
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It was a long train ride up to our prep school in Boston, and there were guys on that train. (source)prep school = preceding and preparing for something
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Matthew encountered the stationmaster locking up the ticket office preparatory to going home for supper, and asked him if the five-thirty train would soon be along. (source)preparatory = in preparing
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He paused the way he liked to pause in his sermons, preparatory to driving home a point he was especially fond of, then he said, "The kind of life people lead in this county is getting rarer and rarer.† (source)
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And welcome, teachers and students from ...the Beecher Prep School!† (source)
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This did not prepare me for the unique sort of heat that one encounters fifteen miles south of Birmingham, Alabama, at Culver Creek Preparatory School.† (source)
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Without consulting her husband, she arranged for her son to he shipped off to a military prep school—the first of several failed attempts to "normalize" the boy.† (source)
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At least, as a side effect of the preparatory operations, he had finally been cured of his rage.† (source)
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Educated at prep school and the Sorbonne, he had a cum laude degree in international finance.† (source)
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He had made one careless blunder though, because he had skimped a bit on his preparatory research.† (source)
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Jason and his friends played it at inter-prep school field parties when scoping out girls.† (source)
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The "IQ fundamentalist" Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p.113): "The four socially and personally most important threshold regions on the IQ scale are those that differentiate with high probability between persons who, because of their level of general mental ability, can or cannot attend a regular school (about IQ 50), can or cannot master the traditional subject matter of elementary school (about IQ 75), can or cannot succeed in the academic or college preparatory curriculum through high school (about IQ 105), can or cannot graduate from an accredited four-year college with grades that would qualify for admission to a professional or graduate sch† (source)
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This was borderline acceptable to Harriet Wheelwright—although my grandmother was a shrewd enough businesswoman to know that the dollars and cents of teaching (even at as prestigious a prep school as Gravesend Academy) were not exactly in her league.† (source)
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