Thesaurus results for SCHOOLS

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noun

plural of school

as in academies

a place or establishment for teaching and learning one of the first schools in the country to admit girls as students

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verb

present tense third-person singular of school

as in teaches

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field schooled their children in proper etiquette for formal occasions

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Recent Examples of schools

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Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, are already enrolled in British schools for the coming term, which is due to start in September. — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026 The state also acknowledged technical interruptions affecting some schools during this year’s testing window. — Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026 Department of Homeland Security agents secretly recorded meetings held at churches, libraries, restaurants and schools across the Twin Cities during a surge in federal immigration enforcement last winter, according to government documents. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026 New York City schools are almost back in session, and a Staten Island teenager is calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to make express buses free for all students. — Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 Rather than funding a single program, the donation from the Dimons flows into permanent endowments, which UNCF argues gives schools the freedom to plan for decades instead of scrambling to find donations year to year. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 In Gramsci’s telling, wars of maneuver could succeed where the state had a tight grip and the institutions of civil society (churches, schools, unions, professional organizations, the press) were weak and malleable, as in Imperial Russia. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026 Here are those schools with the year of their most recent titles. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Air Reading has served 12 schools and about 1,200 students since the 2024-25 school year, according to the state Education Department. — Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2026

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Dean Fabrizio and James Teter, each hired in 2009, have been at their Class 6A schools the longest. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Baltimore County's Board of Education named the former Anne Arundel County schools Chief Operating Officer (COO) as its next superintendent, officials announced Monday. — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 22 June 2026 There are people doing the hard work that schools such as Hi-Mount require. — Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 12 June 2026 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 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 Sales of the $6 tickets will be used to fund performances for students at Title I schools. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for schools

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Morris will be playing for his fourth high school in as many years, the first two in the Seattle area and the last two at prep academies in the Phoenix area.

— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
The law sets exceptions for certain schools and academies, including year-round schools, cooperative innovative/early college schools and qualifying districts that have a good-cause calendar waiver.

— Zaire Breedlove, Charlotte Observer, 16 Aug. 2026