homework

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as in schoolwork

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Recent Examples of homework TickTalk 6 also includes reminders that parents can set through the TickTalk app for homework, chores, medications, appointments, and daily routines. — Jon Stojan, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 Samuels on Wednesday acknowledged the challenge of preventing students from using AI at home, for example, to help complete homework. — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026 Have an older child help a younger sibling with homework, check on an elderly neighbor, volunteer, or take responsibility for part of a family project. — Suzan J. Song, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 For example, the phone may be used during certain hours before bedtime but not at the dinner table or while doing homework. — Michele Marchetti, Parents, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for homework
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  1. schoolwork
  2. lesson
  3. reading
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  • For Zarina Pino, a medical doctor, the calendar change this year feels particularly meaningful, as a Miami-Dade County Public Schools alumna herself who never got to embrace the holiday without compromising her schoolwork.
    — Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In the meantime, the community has stepped up to help the family by caring for the kids, delivering meals, helping with schoolwork and walking the dog.
    — Michele Gile, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of schoolwork
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  • Cyrus then offered a little history lesson of his own, recalling a time when he was known simply by his surname before his 1992 breakthrough hit.
    — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
  • History’s lesson is rarely that leaders failed to see the technology coming.
    — Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of lesson
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  • Rarely has a film so resourcefully evoked the transportive but decidedly analog thrill of reading; rarely has the warmly musty smell of research libraries and archives somehow wafted with such sense-memory precision off a cinema screen.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Our full events calendar, which continues to grow, also features community workshops, silent reading clubs and more.
    — Aaron Reiss, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
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