boarding school

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in November 1938, Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III went to a military boarding school in Tennessee, and then attended Brown University, but was expelled before graduating.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

"She was a single mother raising her only child, committed to providing me with the life she was not lucky enough to have – boarding school, quality education," he said.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Llandovery College, which was founded in the mid-19th Century, is a mixed day and boarding school, which had around 215 pupils at the time of its last Estyn inspection.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 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

Until well into the night they could be heard chattering and singing and tap-dancing, so that the house resembled a boarding school where there was no discipline.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez