boarding school

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Mr. Ansari—the son of an Iranian ambassador and a distant cousin of Farah Pahlavi, the shah’s widow—was sent off to boarding school in the U.K. in June 1978, “which was fairly good timing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

"It's like a state-sponsored boarding school where they systematically foster football players."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

In Middletown: The fictional Welton Academy in Vermont, setting of “Dead Poets Society,” is actually St. Andrew’s School, a private boarding school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

As a child, she also read Enid Blyton's Malory Towers books, which follow the lives of girls at a Cornish boarding school in the 1940s and 50s.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

They looked like the rump of a boarding school, like the one he had taught at near Lille in the summer before he went up to Cambridge.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan