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finishing school

NOUN
academy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
boarding school institute prep school secondary school seminary
WEAK
brainery halls of ivy military school preparatory school

Example Sentences

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Many survivors treated in childhood or young adulthood are working toward finishing school, launching careers, gaining independence, or starting families.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

Soon after finishing school, he started working as a bus conductor.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

She enrolled at Milan’s Istituto Marangoni, a finishing school for Italian fashion royalty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Museveni studied in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the 1960s when the university acted as a kind of revolutionary finishing school for anti-colonialists.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

And when he heard you were at finishing school, he was indignant.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine