boarding school

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"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

She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclusive boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, and went to Barnard College in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

He conceived the social experiment based on a combination of his curiosity about people, the influence of “Lord of the Flies” and “Robinson Crusoe,” and his boarding school experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

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

Alexina Barbin attended a girls’ boarding school in France before becoming Abel.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides