as in assignments
something assigned to be read or studied
your lesson for tonight will be the chapter on chemical reactions
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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 lessons
Sophia Rey, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2026
Biology lessons were a shock to Matthew.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Cyrus, a Colorado School of Mines alumnus, said Pegasus leverages technological advancements and lessons learned from another Lunar Outpost rover, MAPP, or Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
Clopp offers scuba diving lessons in Raleigh, Southport and Carolina Beach.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
Miles Davis as a source of leadership lessons?
—Bill Fischer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Fifty-one years later, Three Days of the Condor offers business leaders lessons in individual resilience, creative problem solving in chaos and the value of transparency under pressure.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
See video … LISTEN Tune in for a look at America’s 250th birthday, the enduring lessons of 1776, and why the nation has weathered deeper divides before.
—FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
Conversations between the two often brimmed with lessons on life, which Honda carries close to heart.
—Julius Miller
follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
Fittingly, lessons from a northern voice can help provide a path towards understanding.
—Sophia Rey, JSTOR Daily, 28 May 2026
Biology lessons were a shock to Matthew.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Cyrus, a Colorado School of Mines alumnus, said Pegasus leverages technological advancements and lessons learned from another Lunar Outpost rover, MAPP, or Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
Clopp offers scuba diving lessons in Raleigh, Southport and Carolina Beach.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
Miles Davis as a source of leadership lessons?
—Bill Fischer, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Fifty-one years later, Three Days of the Condor offers business leaders lessons in individual resilience, creative problem solving in chaos and the value of transparency under pressure.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
See video … LISTEN Tune in for a look at America’s 250th birthday, the enduring lessons of 1776, and why the nation has weathered deeper divides before.
—FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
Conversations between the two often brimmed with lessons on life, which Honda carries close to heart.
—Julius Miller
follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Verb
Questions — and hopefully lessons Backcountry around the world are waiting for officials to release more information about what decisions Blackbird’s guides made leading into the tragedy.
—Sacbee.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lessons
Noun
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools assignments can shift, and a house on one street may feed into a different school than the one next door.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2026
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Over time, those uncomfortable assignments became the very experiences that carried me into executive leadership.—
Christine Lentz,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Gessen teaches at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and lives in New York City.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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An essential seven-email nurture sequence then teaches, builds trust, handles objections, and ultimately closes sales automatically.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Once in the air, the dandelion drones would transmit data via radio signals, collecting readings on humidity, temperature and eventually creating a blueprint of the entire tunnel system.—
Tom Brown,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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The platform's library of human readings eventually evolved into a type of phonetic library used to train Tassel's AI model, and Rigby said its accuracy has improved as the application is used by more students.—
Kendall Staton The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2026
Verb
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Part of the Who HQ series, this book educates readers about LGBTQ+ activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician elected in California.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
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SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
27 May 2026
Verb
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This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 May 2026
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The same can’t be said for Pidgeon, a waifish Michigan native who attended two prestigious drama schools back-to-back—Interlochen Arts Academy and Carnegie Mellon—and was cast in the Amazon Prime series The Wilds straight out of school.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
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