private school

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Some of those luxuries then become fixed expenses that are hard to unwind — a bigger house, a more expensive car, private school.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

He also graduated from Stanford and now is president of the private school in Salinas, Calif., that he and his son attended.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Government lawyers had argued that families who wished to opt out of state-funded education were free to send their children to private school or to educate them at home.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

California students in some places can attend charter schools if they clear the waiting list, but they have no private school choice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

If you are over sixty or went to private school, you may have noticed that this syntactic machinery differs in certain ways from what you remember from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker