boarding

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Morgan, and the couple immediately sent Lilias and her brother to a succession of boarding schools and summer camps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Six others were rescued, with one of them taken to hospital requiring urgent care, after migrants got into difficulty boarding a boat near Calais on Wednesday morning.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 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

One South Sudanese sophomore at Bates College in Maine was stopped from boarding her flight back to the U.S. the day after the ban was announced.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

This year she brought me along, so I could get to know the town before I start at the Mount, the Native boarding school for kids from villages too small to have a high school.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith