Thesaurus results for LESSON

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noun

ˈle-sᵊn

Definition of lesson

as in assignment

something assigned to be read or studied your lesson for tonight will be the chapter on chemical reactions

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verb

as in to teach

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field would tirelessly lesson the children in proper manners

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The broader lesson is less about making customers suspicious of every online rental and more about knowing who is actually standing behind the transaction. — Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 Once The New Stanford Prison Experiment proves the same lesson as its predecessor, what else is there? — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

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Questions — and hopefully lessons Backcountry around the world are waiting for officials to release more information about what decisions Blackbird’s guides made leading into the tragedy. — Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026 Another $62,000 is for meal delivery and $42,000 has gone to lesson creation costs. — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lesson

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Noun

As the exhausting history of credit-card fraud and data breaches suggests, too many sites and merchants still don’t understand their assignment.

— Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
In September, Anthropic updated Claude to combine chat with Cowork and keep working on assignments after users closed their laptops.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of assignment

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Today, whether social media – and its impact on young attention spans – will have a lasting impact on who constitutes this narrow reading class long-term is as yet unclear.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 22 Oct. 2026
The nonprofit helped raise reading scores at the school by 18% last year, so more than half of the students can read at or above grade level.

— Sharon Chin, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of reading

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Faculty are chosen based on their track record of educating Black students.

— Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
He was educated at Middlebury College, and lived in New York City for 15 years, before settling back on the farm with his wife, Olga, and their children, Fiona and Abraham.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of educate

Noun

On a cold February morning at West Virginia’s Capitol, children in winter jackets, holding signs and their homework, clogged the hallways outside the House Finance Committee room.

— Henry Culvyhouse, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2026
Cooked for Kip, helped him with homework, tucked him in, walked him to school in the morning, giving him little pep talks on the way—joy, not fear, and so on.

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

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