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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To many Trumpists, though, the diversity and the authority of the academy stands as a threat.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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One academy graduate, El Chadaille Bitshiabu, was even revealed to have started learning Spanish purely so as to be able to understand what his team-mates were talking about.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Sales teaches you to communicate with impact and listen with intention.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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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
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
Verb
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Don't show up and ask someone there to educate you.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
9 Apr. 2025
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The bottom line: The Oregon Health Authority is working to expand peer networks throughout the state, especially in rural communities in the eastern part of the state, to better reach at-risk populations and educate health care providers, while continuing to track its prevalence in the drug supply.—
Meira Gebel,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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“School.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/school. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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