as in academy
a place or establishment for teaching and learning
one of the first schools in the country to admit girls as students
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as in to teach
to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field
schooled their children in proper etiquette for formal occasions
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Recent Examples of school
Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Grammarly, for example, was widely recommended as a writing aid, and many schools encouraged its use.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
New York Times Games, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The Taliban have deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, according to the United Nations.
—Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Both her children are in public school, one in middle school and the other in high school.
—Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Grammarly, for example, was widely recommended as a writing aid, and many schools encouraged its use.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
After a couple of years of being schooled by Bot maybe more people are following those tips and improving their play.
—New York Times Games, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
The Taliban have deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, according to the United Nations.
—Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for school
Noun
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His brother, Thomas, was a star football player at Venice, went to the Air Force Academy, gave up the sport, became a boxer and recently won the academy’s heavyweight title.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2025
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Robinson’s overlap was not found, but the run disrupted Newcastle’s defensive line and helped create the space for the Arsenal academy graduates to combine.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But his delivery proved so funny that Hughes put him in the film, teaching somnambulant students.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Even microbes can get in on the act: In the case of colorectal cancer, bacteria from the intestines teach the liver to receive metastatic cancer cells.—
Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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It’s headed by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabba Sara Hurwitz, the founders of liberal Orthodox seminaries in New York City.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2025
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Born in Poland in 1920, Karol Józef Wojtyła attended clandestine seminaries and frequented groups of intellectuals who met in secret to discuss ways of undermining Communism from within.—
Yvonnick Denoël,
airmail.news,
1 Feb. 2025
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Literacy was seen as a major factor in pre-war slave unrest, and attempts to educate Southern Blacks were greeted with everything from suspicion to violent opposition.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Mercedes also has an easier audience to sell EVs to -- their customers are educated and more willing to try new things.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2025
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“School.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/school. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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