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archaic
: reproof
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: the cost of instruction and maintenance at school
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: the training of a horse for service
especially
: the teaching and exercising of horse and rider in the formal techniques of equitation
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Examples of schooling in a Sentence
He has had little schooling.
the extended schooling needed for a horse to be able to make those precision movements
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Critics said the move depletes the government of vital data sources on American schooling and all but decimated the agency’s research division.
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Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
President Donald Trump and Republicans have also voiced a desire to use their congressional majorities to overhaul higher education and create a federal tax credit program that would help families nationwide pay for private schooling.
Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to figure out how to stop him.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
Beyond New Beginnings was created to help young women, between the ages of 18 and 26, with low income housing, completion of a high school diploma, attending post-secondary schooling or full-time employment.
—Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Those groups–the Stand Together Foundation and Stand Together Trust–cut a total of $178 million in checks to more than 300 organizations in 2023, including sober active community The Phoenix ($12 million) and the VELA Education Fund for alternative schooling ($10 million).
—Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 3 Feb. 2025
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Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
President Donald Trump and Republicans have also voiced a desire to use their congressional majorities to overhaul higher education and create a federal tax credit program that would help families nationwide pay for private schooling.
Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to figure out how to stop him.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
Beyond New Beginnings was created to help young women, between the ages of 18 and 26, with low income housing, completion of a high school diploma, attending post-secondary schooling or full-time employment.
—Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Those groups–the Stand Together Foundation and Stand Together Trust–cut a total of $178 million in checks to more than 300 organizations in 2023, including sober active community The Phoenix ($12 million) and the VELA Education Fund for alternative schooling ($10 million).
—Forbes Wealth Team, Forbes, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Schooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schooling. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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