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as in teaching

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coaching

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verb

present participle of coach

as in guiding

to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed carefully coached her through the home-buying process

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Recent Examples of coaching

Noun

Meanwhile, Winston’s brief but productive performance in Philadelphia was in the back of the coaching staff’s mind. — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2026 Field position is an important part of what UCF does offensively and Swint’s special teams performances have earned the coaching staff’s appreciation. — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2026 With a coaching search having happened so recently, Lee still felt confident in the process that led the club to Wicky. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2026 Both Meyer and Kingston are sharing the workload with the first team offense, and the coaching staff will likely start whoever gives the team the best chance to win. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026 Last year Ben Johnson said the bye came at a good time in Week 5 because the new Chicago Bears coaching staff would get a chance to evaluate what the team was doing early in the season. — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2026 The highlight of the last few years of Ryan’s coaching career came when his Bills defeated the Jets in a regular-season finale, depriving his former team of a playoff berth. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026 The college football coaching carousel has officially begun spinning. — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026

Verb

Also honored was Pat Murphy, the manager of the World Series champion Milwaukee Brewers and someone who won 73% of his games while coaching at Notre Dame. — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026 Penalties, special teams and offensive line play are the three areas impacted by coaching the most, and the Horned Frogs have failing grades in each category outside of punter John Hoyet Chance. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2026 Bates is now exploring free agency and fielding calls from other teams, and the Dodgers are exploring their options to replace him on manager Dave Roberts’ coaching staff. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026 The reporting showed that Richardson continued coaching in part by allowing a former assistant, Gavin Rudder, to take over the volleyball club after Richardson was banned by USA Volleyball, the sport’s governing body, in 2024. — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2026 Keyes has lived in Colfax for 20 years and has been involved in community service, including coaching soccer. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026 After a month of Halloween horror, Williams wanted the kind of crying that comes with a good ol’ sports movie, and Keanu Reeves coaching a group of kids offers a true tale of common ground through weepy comfort. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2026 When assistant Brian Penn decided to take a year off from coaching, Klosterman offered the job to Sean Wesley. — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026 First from Thomas, who, despite playing cornerback, has focused on coaching wide receivers. — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coaching

Noun

Damianides also coaches Central's Science Olympiad team and says a few of his own high school teachers at Naperville North influenced him to get into teaching science.

— Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Anti-war campaigners have released a teaching handbook urging educators to rethink how children learn about conflict, with activities aimed at pupils from first grade through high school.

— Rich Percival, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of teaching

Verb

But the Dodgers’ first attempt at guiding him though a full two-way season crashed and burned in the wake of a lingering left knee injury and recurring right biceps issue.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026
With Miami, Moskowitz wants to show the rest of the country a system where rigor and competition are the guiding principles and teachers unions are the biggest roadblocks.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of guiding

Noun

Stickers pasted throughout the suite help guests understand air conditioning, lighting settings, and more.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Nov. 2026
And while financial experts advise keeping at least a $5,000 slush fund on hand for emergencies, nearly half have no plan to cover the cost of something major like putting up a new roof or replacing the air conditioning.

— Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of conditioning

Verb

The organization also launched a mentoring program, giving employees the opportunity to branch out their skills.

— S. Sorrina Beecher, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
The Miami native who played for Columbus High before starring at Michigan made his presence known as a seven-year NFL veteran, mentoring the young Dolphins while excelling on the field.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of mentoring

Noun

Achieving this beautiful landscape requires careful cultivation and maintenance; one effective strategy is dormant lawn seeding.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 3 Nov. 2026
There is not enough arable land in China to both expand soybean cultivation and sustain self-reliance in staple grains.

— JOEL WUTHNOW, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of cultivation

Verb

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

Noun

Still, according to numbers from University of Miami education researcher and professor Bruce Baker, the percentage of English language learners served by Success Academy is much lower than New York City district schools.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
Most of the money would have been used to backfill federal funding cuts to healthcare, and 10% would have gone toward education and food-assistance programs.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of education

Noun

Fitness classes, personal training sessions, and spa treatments can be booked with the hotel concierge team.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2026
Unlike model training, which involves developing and refining models, inference runs those models to generate responses and perform tasks.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of training

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