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as in schooling
the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another
a teacher who devoted herself to the education of children with special needs
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as in literacy
the understanding and information gained from being educated
a person whose extensive education was obvious to all who met him
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Recent Examples of education
The term is also multidimensional, embodying a range of qualities beyond wealth, like attractiveness, ambition, education/intelligence, professional success/achievement, and dating intention.
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Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
DeMatteo will share how access to gardening, fresh food, and agricultural education can be transformative for individuals and families facing food insecurity, and how horticulture has the power to restore both communities and the land.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at the University of Pennsylvania.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
Rehabilitation must be a cornerstone of what the prison system provides, and education is foundational to that.
—Christopher Martinez, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
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Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
DeMatteo will share how access to gardening, fresh food, and agricultural education can be transformative for individuals and families facing food insecurity, and how horticulture has the power to restore both communities and the land.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at the University of Pennsylvania.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
Rehabilitation must be a cornerstone of what the prison system provides, and education is foundational to that.
—Christopher Martinez, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for education
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An education advocate, Jackson founded the PUSH/Excel program to motivate Black and impoverished students to achieve excellence through schooling.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Feb. 2026
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But when the remote schooling era of the pandemic ended, the education field should have taken it as an opportune moment to audit digital use in classrooms, said David Stein, president of Montgomery County Education Association, a local teachers’ union in Maryland.—
Tyler Kingkade,
NBC news,
16 Feb. 2026
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The new school will increase opportunities for students across colleges by creating new courses in AI literacy and allowing more students to enroll in each major.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
19 Feb. 2026
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The program dedicates money for literacy instruction in schools.—
Nuria Martinez-Keel,
Oklahoma Voice,
19 Feb. 2026
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Another day might be split between classrooms — co-teaching, modeling classroom management strategies or observing first-year teachers.—
Kathryn Muchnick,
Louisville Courier Journal,
20 Feb. 2026
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The board then considered eliminating 14 preschool teaching positions and five coordination positions, one of which is vacant.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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And also there’s a huge music staff with a lot of know-how and really, really deep knowledge and contacts and relationships in that space.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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The general principle that all real knowledge is derived from sense perception of material facts cannot itself be derived from the perception of facts in the world, and thus can’t really be sanctioned by scientific materialism’s own methods.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Beerman will also offer replacement parts and instructions directly for repair if the user doesn’t want to send back the camera for repair and is able to do it themself.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Feb. 2026
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The retrial instructions to the jury indicate that Alkayyali also testified at the retrial.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Chiao is part of a booming new economy of professional experts in their fields who are training AI through a process called reinforcement learning, essentially grading AI’s responses and teaching models to improve through trial and error.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Researchers combined a type of observational learning with intercommunication between its limbs to boost robots’ flexibility.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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CultureCon offers free scholarship tickets to students with financial needs and also partners with colleges to offer free admission.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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Applicants sought for scholarships Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain will be awarding two $500 scholarships through the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association, according to a news release.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Education.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/education. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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