as in education
the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another
the extended schooling needed for a horse to be able to make those precision movements
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as in teaching
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 schooling
Nicole Gelinas, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
But students don’t just appear in high school, there is roughly a decade of schooling beforehand.
—Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
Initially funded by private philanthropy and later the Gates Foundation, the program helped participants resume schooling or gain employment, while allowing researchers to detect HIV infections within days.
—David Cox, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
New York can and should keep adding more housing, but any theoretical ratcheting down of prices, provided the city remains safe and continues to offer parents good schooling options for their kids, would unleash new demand.
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And then comes Sunday’s Pisces lunar eclipse in your partnership zone — the same zone Saturn’s been schooling you in.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for schooling
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Many young consumers, already juggling high costs for food, rent, and education, and crushed by an unsympathetic labor market, are entering adulthood with the self-care budget of a socialite twice their age.—
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The food hub's work now focuses more on education.—
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From training the first service dog to beautifying a scenic jewel to teaching at-risk kids to save and invest money, our Icon winners are making a difference.—
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Not forcing her to go means hurting the other girl, forcing her to go means teaching your daughter that her own comfort should be subjugated to make someone else happy.—
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The young Malinin skated by himself, uninterested in instruction.—
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Careful use of pesticides, following all label instructions.—
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So prevalent is memorabilia fraud that the United States Postal Inspectors Service devotes an entire page on its website educating consumers how to protect themselves.—
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The narrative tracks a woman from an indigenous community in rural India whose job involves educating machine learning systems.—
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“Schooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooling. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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