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
Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Weiss, the team’s quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator, was originally put on leave in January 2023 while the school’s police department investigated unspecified computer access crimes.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Art De Roché, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Microsoft, on the cusp of its 50th anniversary and schooled by its antitrust fight more than two decades ago, is arguably tech’s savviest player on policy issues, with a strong lobbying arm and executives who have nurtured contacts in both political parties.
—Karen Weise, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Now Odom is the head coach of the Cavaliers after the school officially named its new men’s basketball coach on Saturday.
—Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Weiss, the team’s quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator, was originally put on leave in January 2023 while the school’s police department investigated unspecified computer access crimes.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
Our central defensive partnership is amongst the best hut still prone to silly mistakes and they got schooled by Isak on more than one occasion.
—Art De Roché, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
Microsoft, on the cusp of its 50th anniversary and schooled by its antitrust fight more than two decades ago, is arguably tech’s savviest player on policy issues, with a strong lobbying arm and executives who have nurtured contacts in both political parties.
—Karen Weise, New York Times, 8 Feb. 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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What has Biscuits & Banjos taught you about putting on a music festival?—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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The past teaches us that The former Chelsea manager has spoken about a playing style mirroring traditional English strengths.—
Simon Hughes,
The Athletic,
23 Mar. 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 4 Apr. 2025.
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