as in to prepare
to make ready in advance
the cooking time is considerably shortened if you've prepped the chicken the night before
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Recent Examples of prep
Martha Stewart, 11 Apr. 2026
To style, prep your hair with a volumizing spray rather than a mousse—sprays are more lightweight and thus less likely to weigh fine hair down.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
Cutting with a dull blade does more than make prep work tedious.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
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Verb
To prep it, mash half with a fork and roughly chop the other.
—Martha Stewart, 11 Apr. 2026
To style, prep your hair with a volumizing spray rather than a mousse—sprays are more lightweight and thus less likely to weigh fine hair down.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
The low high school rankings of the Dolphins defenders as prep prospects stands in contrast to several of their draft picks on offense.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
Cutting with a dull blade does more than make prep work tedious.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep
Verb
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All of that was on plenty of minds as the audience started on spring pea and burrata salad and waiters prepared to serve a main course starring prime chateaubriand and Maine lobster.—
Calvin Woodward,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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If suspicious activity is detected, users receive support from fraud resolution specialists who help contact agencies, prepare documentation, and dispute unauthorized accounts.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Hepburn has said all of these positions are based in district offices, not schools.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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Other schools are stepping up to take in students as transfers, but no similar partnerships have been established for staff members.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There is no Ardua Hall and aunt training (at least not yet), and Daisy is sent to shadow Agnes at preparatory school.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
16 Apr. 2026
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The coming-of-age series centers around a group of young women attending a preparatory school in Gilead.—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The former Oak Hill Academy prep school standout scored 29 points on 11-of-12 shooting (7-of-13 from line) and grabbed 18 rebounds in a Charleston victory over Elon.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
28 Apr. 2026
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Markayle Gray, a Black teacher formerly employed by Charlotte Secondary School, says he was fired because of backlash over his teaching of a novel about a Black student who attends an elite prep school and becomes the victim of racial profiling.—
Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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What actually followed for me and my younger sister Marianne was six years at a boarding school for disadvantaged kids.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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Greek director Konstantina Kotzamani’s Titanic Ocean, coming-of-age tale set in a special boarding school in Japan that trains teenage girls into professional mermaids, will also debut in Un Certain Regard.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Safonov, who began his football career in Krasnodar’s academy aged 12, is not your typical footballer.—
Tom Burrows,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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His work deepened and developed under the responsiveness of the academy and a larger and not-yet-balkanized reading public.—
Nick Laird,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Prep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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