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homeschooling

verb

present participle of homeschool
as in preaching

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homeschooling
  1. preaching
  2. drilling
  3. grounding
  4. preparing
  5. lecturing
  6. informing
  7. qualifying
  8. familiarizing
Verb
  • Alpert, now Ram Dass, returned from India in white robes and bare feet, preaching and writing about consciousness.
    — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Christen is fully committed to practicing rather than preaching.
    — WWD Staff, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of preaching
Verb
  • The company is drilling toward rock measuring 750°F (400°C), where each well could deliver up to 10 times the power of a conventional geothermal well operating at 390°F (200°C).
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And the best part is that Stark didn't have to start drilling holes in the battery or remove half the motorcycle to achieve it.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of drilling
Verb
  • However, Maikel Garcia halted the scoring chance by grounding into a double play.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
  • This means establishing continuous data deduplication pipelines, enriching customer profiles with real-time behavioral signals and grounding the decisioning engine in strict governance boundaries.
    — Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of grounding
Verb
  • Zelenskyy said Ukraine was also preparing for a meeting with von der Leyen at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week focused on the country's financial stability.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Know More Republican leaders are preparing for Democratic opponents of the college sports bill to dig in, dragging out the rest of the schedule.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of preparing
Verb
  • Especially for him in the same interview to be lecturing my party on democracy and norms.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Before long, at the height of France’s own student protests, in 1968, Ascherson was lecturing at the Sorbonne on post-Stalinist revolutionary ideas and tactics.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of lecturing
Verb
  • But in order to disguise what is afoot, in a party-line vote in both houses of the General Assembly, Democrats prescribed the precise language that must appear on the ballot informing the voters what Question 3 will do, if passed.
    — Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Human rights groups and United Nations officials have accused the Syrian government of widespread abuses in its detention facilities, including torture and arbitrary detention of thousands of people, in many cases without informing their families.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of informing
Verb
  • Under the terms of the bill, the Social Security Administration would be tasked with coming up with a full list of qualifying physically demanding occupations, which would be updated every three years.
    — Lorie Konish, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Both forms of relief require a qualifying statutory violation.
    — Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of qualifying
Verb
  • High Proof is clearly a heck of a place to start familiarizing yourself.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • But at this stage, Gilman, who has five years experience but came in as a free agent, is still familiarizing himself with the playbook.
    — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of familiarizing
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“Homeschooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homeschooling. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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