as in to teach
to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field
would tirelessly lesson the children in proper manners
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Recent Examples of lesson
Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Atwell has mastered the most important lesson in fashion — knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 14 May 2025
Sam Sabin, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
Nearing 80-years-old and urged by his wife Grete (Lena Olin) to reduce some of his store of papers, Winton, who never told his family about his role in saving so many refugees, wonders what lessons the scrapbook documenting his work might offer to a wider public.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Just ask Bryson DeChambeau, who learned this lesson the hard way.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
Atwell has mastered the most important lesson in fashion — knowing your strengths and weaknesses.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 14 May 2025
Verb
Many of those questions are focused on how CrowdStrike has adapted to prevent a similar outage, why only Windows systems were affected, and what lessons other IT vendors can learn from this, Daniel noted.
—Sam Sabin, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
Nearing 80-years-old and urged by his wife Grete (Lena Olin) to reduce some of his store of papers, Winton, who never told his family about his role in saving so many refugees, wonders what lessons the scrapbook documenting his work might offer to a wider public.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lesson
Noun
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Here’s my exact approach to helping teens quickly, painlessly complete their missing assignments.—
Cyndy Etler,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2025
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Lowder suffered the loss in both, losing his start in Arizona to Clayton Kershaw, who was on a rehab assignment for the Los Angeles Dodgers.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
Verb
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Revere used that skill to teach himself to become an engraver and later a dentist, fashioning implants for his patients.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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The film’s director, Catherine Masud, who teaches at UConn, will present and discuss the film on May 17 at 5:30 p.m. at Real Art Ways.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
Noun
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Make this required reading for the other 90 players.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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His hobbies include reading, listening to music and going on long, winding adventures on his road bike.—
Thomas Saccente,
Arkansas Online,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Applications open today for the three month in-person program that will include six development sessions to educate and create access and community for up to 20 mentees across creative and management tracks.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
5 May 2025
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The material contained on this site is intended to inform, entertain and educate the reader and in no way represents an inducement to gamble legally or illegally or any sort of professional advice.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
Noun
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An experiment where chronic pain patients learned to turn down negative emotions through a combination of sessions with an online therapist with homework showed significant success easing physical suffering, according to an article in the journal JAMA Network Open.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
7 May 2025
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However, do your homework and plan things carefully.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
5 May 2025
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“Lesson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lesson. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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