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
Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
However, a new school rule says that no magic is allowed on campus.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Before delaying your to-do list, school yourself on the best vacuum brands vetted by AD editors.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
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Noun
After dropping the kids off, Molly returned home to work, while Matt went inside the church for the first weekly Wednesday school mass of the academic year.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
However, a new school rule says that no magic is allowed on campus.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
Christy Roscoe home-schooled their two now-adult sons and then their two now-young adult daughters, adopted from Liberia.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Before delaying your to-do list, school yourself on the best vacuum brands vetted by AD editors.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for school
Noun
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While the department already consists of head of technical recruitment and analysis Maximilian Hahn, sporting director Mark Noble (whose remit is the academy), European scouts Georges Santos and Antonio Tramontano, and first-team scout Adrian Clarke, there is a clear gap at the top.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Like the rest of the new 2025 backers, FirstTracks is coming into Two Oaks Ventures, which owns the MLS team and operates its academy, its MLS Next Pro franchise and Q2 Stadium.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Novelists—those modern counterparts to the epic poets—have something to teach all those constituencies.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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She's not getting taught the base of the dance.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Before the ban, police in Punjab raided the house of the TLP's leader, Saad Rizvi, and the government sealed mosques and seminaries associated with the party.—
NPR,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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The state visit concluded with King Charles attending a reception at the Pontifical Beda College, a seminary which trains priests from across the Commonwealth.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Employers should foster transparent, safe ways for employees to voice concerns inside the organization and educate managers on how to handle them.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Word had gotten around that the home belonged to an elder activist, an old-school Garveyite who had come from the South to educate the city of Brotherly Love’s Black masses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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“School.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/school. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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