Thesaurus results for SCHOOLING

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noun

ˈskü-liŋ

Definition of schooling

as in education

the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another the extended schooling needed for a horse to be able to make those precision movements

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verb

present participle of school

as in teaching

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field schooled their children in proper etiquette for formal occasions

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For these parents, independent schooling is not a luxury or a lifestyle choice. — Claudia Nachtigal, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2026 Because of this, the survey avoided questions that could point to users' ages, such as what phase of schooling users were enrolled in. — Katie McQue, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026

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Taylor has been schooling La Trice on how to play the game, and then came up with a big Veto win this week. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 Google DeepMind's Sierra Leone study, led by research director Irina Jurenka, reports its AI tutor, Guided Learning, helped students gain over a year's worth of schooling in just eight weeks. — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for schooling

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The union argues that income limits topping $500,000 in parts of the state make it more a tax break for the wealthy than an education program.

— Lara Murray-Sterzel, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Its eventual deployment could help the university explore how emerging aircraft fit into policing, emergency management, and engineering education.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of education

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Public schools, meanwhile, must continue educating eligible children in their districts, regardless of how expensive their needs may be.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
This includes educating and training thousands of engineers, maritime specialists, nuclear tradespeople and other professionals to support the enterprise across its full lifecycle, as per the release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

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