boarding

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Years spent away at boarding schools meant English gradually became dominant, though Jaintia - the language spoken at home - remains, as she puts it, "my emotional anchor".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Harry’s aunt and uncle have been preventing such dispatches from reaching the young wizard-to-be, but the boarding school’s messenger owls are having none of it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

"In addition, supervision from the Ministry of Religion and the community regarding these newly emerging Islamic boarding schools must be stricter."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

A Dutch couple who had travelled around South America before boarding the ship in Ushuaia, Argentina on April 1 were the first fatalities.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

“So once I tried not boarding the train as it departed and that was just as painful. We are well and truly bound.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern