Thesaurus results for SCHOOLS

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noun

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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

Noun

The new policy changes that, allowing the city to clear vehicles and encampments more quickly in what officials describe as high-sensitivity areas, including places near schools, businesses, and homes. —

Kenny Choi, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026 About this many schools are being used by warring sides or are shelters for displaced people, according to UNICEF. —

ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026 That includes schools, churches, synagogues, mosques, crisis centers, shelters, food banks, and day care centers, among others. —

Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2026 In March, the Orange County School Board voted to shutter seven half-empty schools — Union Park Middle School and Bonneville, Chickasaw, Eccleston, Meadow Woods, McCoy and Orlo Vista elementary schools. —

Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026 Opponents of the decision — many of whom were in the room Tuesday — say the state still isn’t adequately funding its schools. —

Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026 Brown is a retired educator and taught for 50 years, including time at Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph, Hickman Mills, Cristo Rey and other schools alongside time being a teaching assistant in the Center district. —

Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 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 Sales of the $6 tickets will be used to fund performances for students at Title I schools. —

Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2025

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The composers Raffaele Calace and Carlo Munier set out to write music of a quality the academies could not ignore.

— Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
The organisation aims to design bespoke digital badge qualifications in conjunction with a range of private companies that will offer the 99 per cent of youngsters released from British academies alternative employment pathways.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026