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prep

[prep] / prɛp /










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My year-round prep for all-round physical and mental fitness takes place at the swimming pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Their outfits even seem slightly coordinated with an edgy prep style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

On his return, he spent five months as a probationary constable in the Metropolitan Police, before quitting to become a physical training instructor at a small prep school in Hampshire.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Common advice to fight it includes “closing” your kitchen after dinner, keeping tempting treats out of the house, and doing meal prep at the start of the week.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

I know she loves being assigned greenhouse duty the most; it’s where we prep our seed trays and grow the vegetable starts for our garden.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

She preps "summer baskets" which include puzzle books, reading books and snacks to curb any boredom.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

There is a version of you who meal preps breakfast.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

"The crew just shared a peaceful breakfast with our families and we jump back into training tomorrow to start our preps for a March launch to the Moon."

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

On the morning after Christmas, Paul Caldeira, who works for ReturnQueen, looks through dozens of pickup orders and preps his van with stacks of bags and sorting labels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

This was how they did the lab preps, the AP and regular-track students lumped together before they broke up into smaller groups for the actual experiments.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Despite the change in venue, some things are universal in Nigeria, whose creaking grid is as infamous as Lagos traffic: as the models prepped backstage Friday, the power briefly cut out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

A Niçoise salad is a meal in itself that can be prepped ahead of time, and multiplied to feed many.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Then, while the paper was being prepped for publication, BP began aggressively promoting the ideas it contained.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

"I hadn't prepped for after he was born."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Doctors in sterile white, masked and gloved, already prepped to operate, go into action.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Mike Madrid was prepping to interview Xavier Becerra on Olvera Street last month when the immensity of the moment hit him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

But before simply moving on — prepping for the next doomsday scenario — it is worth asking what we can learn from this one.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

This isn’t about optimizing every meal, spending three hours prepping identical containers or constructing the sort of Sunday routine that makes you feel behind when you inevitably skip it.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

"I quickly learned meal prepping and batch cooking was the best way for me," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Bucky grinned, smoothing down his collar like he was prepping for a date.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon


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