booting (up)

verb

present participle of boot (up)
as in gearing up

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  1. educating
  2. schooling
  3. tutoring
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  • Researchers also found that lowering blood pressure in people with diabetes didn’t help cut down on heart attacks, and educating emergency responders and bystanders to improve their responses to sudden cardiac arrest didn’t keep more people alive.
    — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The department has started with educating the public, particularly parents, with forums.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of educating
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  • Gaps between rich and poor children in reading and math skills are already large on the first day of kindergarten, driven by factors outside of K-12 schooling.
    — David Blazar, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Picasso and Modigliani are there sitting with me, schooling me on art and creativity.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of schooling
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  • About a thousand Turkish high school students solved math problems with regular ChatGPT, with a tutoring version of the bot, or without AI.
    — Dmytro Korchevskyi, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Then in 2015, ProPublica found that The Princeton Review charged different prices for an online SAT tutoring package depending on a customer's ZIP Code.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of tutoring
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“Booting (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/booting%20%28up%29. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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