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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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A number of Democratic governors in key swing states have not opted in to the Education Freedom Tax Credit, a major new initiative embraced by school choice advocates that can be used to help fund private schooling. — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 Trimming down a year of schooling allows students to save thousands of dollars while entering the workforce earlier. — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

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Others have continued schooling or gone on to other industries. — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026 Glory to God, a facility that provides physical therapy, behavioral therapy, and schooling for medically fragile children, is among those affected. — Morgan Rynor, CBS News, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for schooling

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Noun

So when her son, Reed, now 15, was diagnosed with dyslexia 10 years ago, Knopf went down a rabbit hole of literacy education.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
The state discovered that reforms had to be beneficial to all, and so the political mission had to be implementing education and acculturation as a means of solidifying the nascent bourgeoisie.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of education

Verb

Kids love and adore some of these teachers that have been teaching them how to draw or play a sport or musical instrument.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
The Taliban’s madrasahs, meanwhile, are teaching the next generation to adhere to the group’s hardline ideology.

— Rina Amiri, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of teaching

Noun

So, there was no real risk that a court AI system might confuse any of Elliott’s prompts as instructions from the court directing an AI model on how to read Elliott’s filings.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026
Two of his landmark papers, published in 2025 and 2026 in Science, point to a radical redistribution of the cells that make up the body as mammals age, and describe some of the epigenomic instructions that guide this process.

— Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of instruction

Verb

Shaw University played an important role in the Civil Rights era, educating many of the leaders who shaped the movement.

— Yonat Shimron, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Doulas sought to empower women by educating them about childbirth, and by providing physical and emotional support before, during, and after that transformative event.

— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

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