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archaic
: reproof
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: the cost of instruction and maintenance at school
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: the training of a horse for service
especially
: the teaching and exercising of horse and rider in the formal techniques of equitation
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Examples of schooling in a Sentence
He has had little schooling.
the extended schooling needed for a horse to be able to make those precision movements
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Zhou Dynasty During the Zhou dynasty in China from 1046 B.C. until 256 B.C., much of the schooling was likely done in village and district schools where young students learned to read and write using bamboo books.
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
In Kentucky, a ballot initiative that would have allowed public money to go toward private schooling was defeated roughly 65% to 35% — the same margin as in Arizona in 2018 and the inverse of the margin by which Trump won Kentucky.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2024
Unschooling offered an antidote to these concerns about formal schooling while aligning nicely with the lifestyle values of freedom, autonomy and self-reliance that drew many parents to worldschooling in the first place.
—Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
People within those systems know each other from schooling and university.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2024
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
In Kentucky, a ballot initiative that would have allowed public money to go toward private schooling was defeated roughly 65% to 35% — the same margin as in Arizona in 2018 and the inverse of the margin by which Trump won Kentucky.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2024
Unschooling offered an antidote to these concerns about formal schooling while aligning nicely with the lifestyle values of freedom, autonomy and self-reliance that drew many parents to worldschooling in the first place.
—Jennie Germann Molz, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
People within those systems know each other from schooling and university.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for schooling
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“Schooling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schooling. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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