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educate

[ej-oo-keyt] / ˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪt /


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To that end, she describes her launch of the Tell Institute, which works with public-school teachers to educate students about Judaism’s contributions to civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

“Unfortunately, a lot of time, it might end there for a while. We’ll follow up a couple of times, and then it’s up to them. All we can do is advise and educate them.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

“The message is not that you must have a building like this in order to educate kids exceptionally,” Ms. Moskowitz says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

"We do try and educate the visitors before they come to say where it is appropriate to park and where it isn't appropriate to park."

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

The Congressional Union also started “suffrage schools” to educate women about the issue and, according to Paul, they conducted “an uninterrupted series of indoor and outdoor meetings, numbering frequently from five to ten a day.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

It educates us in many arcane worlds of arts and crafts, quilts, chairs, pickle crocks and other items whose value really can be in the eye of the beholder.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Sheers educates crypto-curious clients about other risk assets that offer more diversification and less volatility.

From MarketWatch Mar. 20, 2026

The 40-year-old father of three eventually returned and now heads Diaspora, an NGO which educates potential migrants.

From Barron's Oct. 19, 2025

The prep school, which is part of the Methodist Independent Schools Trust, educates children aged two to 11.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2025

Imagine now that instead of running a day-care center in Haifa, you are running the Chicago Public Schools, a system that educates 400,000 students each year.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

“Parents, teachers and others are much more educated having had this litigation publicly play out over the past year than they were two years ago,” McNally said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

"I think the Taliban are scared of educated women," she adds.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Prince Harry and Meghan have enrolled their two children to be educated in a British school starting in September.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Since the pandemic recovery, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates ages 22 to 27 has been elevated compared with the rate overall, pointing to softening demand for educated entry-level workers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Sam also had an educated perspective on food and health issues, namely how the food industry marketed processed foods to families in the name of convenience and how that was having severe public health consequences.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Utah law explicitly states that parents bear the primary responsibility for educating children.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

I have been educating myself to determine whether a trust would be a good idea for our estate.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Almendarez did reach out to an expert by asking Nye, who has decades of experience educating the public about what is and isn’t science.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

Delaney at UC Berkeley said she doubts colleges will take such action at a large scale, because educating students is people-intensive with limited ways to cut costs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

If I wasn’t going to learn anything from Hemme’s lectures, I might as well start educating myself.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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