educative
adjective
ed·u·ca·tive
ˈe-jə-ˌkā-tiv 
1
: tending to educate : instructive
an educative experience
2
: of or relating to education
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Examples of educative in a Sentence
college students discover that what they experience outside the classroom can be just as educative as anything that happens within
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
The transformative retreats take place in Portugal and Sayulita, Mexico, and combine an impressive range of treatments and educative modalities.
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With varying degrees of complexity, the legal, juridical, educative, and propagandistic structures that had been developed in Syria and Iraq were transplanted abroad.
—Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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This was, uh, really interesting and, uh, and educative.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023
The Murphy administration said the educative Teacher Performance Assessment would no longer be required in New Jersey, but it must be replaced by a similar test to be used to certify graduates.
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Equally important, IDShield has an educative blog section that can educate you into making fewer ID security mistakes.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
The commission was established in 2019 to review reports and cases of abuse of minors under the age of 15, ensure punishment for the perpetrators and work out preventive and educative measures.
—Fox News, 24 June 2021
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
The transformative retreats take place in Portugal and Sayulita, Mexico, and combine an impressive range of treatments and educative modalities.
—Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
With varying degrees of complexity, the legal, juridical, educative, and propagandistic structures that had been developed in Syria and Iraq were transplanted abroad.
—Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
The studio profit report includes an educative look at Disney, which isn’t reporting figures for its filmed entertainment operations specifically, and streaming giant Netflix, even though its financials are not directly comparable to Hollywood studio units.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
This was, uh, really interesting and, uh, and educative.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2023
The Murphy administration said the educative Teacher Performance Assessment would no longer be required in New Jersey, but it must be replaced by a similar test to be used to certify graduates.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2022
Equally important, IDShield has an educative blog section that can educate you into making fewer ID security mistakes.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 June 2022
The commission was established in 2019 to review reports and cases of abuse of minors under the age of 15, ensure punishment for the perpetrators and work out preventive and educative measures.
—Fox News, 24 June 2021
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“Educative.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/educative. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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educative
adjective
ed·u·ca·tive
ˈej-ə-ˌkāt-iv
: helping to educate : instructive
an educative experience
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