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educate

[ej-oo-kayt] / ˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪt /


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“Sopranos” star Sigler, who has been living with MS for more than a decade, assured her co-host that the misdiagnosis changes nothing about Applegate’s efforts to bring awareness to MS or to educate listeners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The MLA added that "opportunities that educate, inspire and broaden horizons are quietly lost while Stormont remains distracted from the issues that matter most to families".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

So, inevitably I’m convinced I can perform pretty much any task better than she, and figure I can best educate Caroline through my example.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

"I just hope to educate a few people," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

It was Schirach’s job to educate Hitler Youth in the spirit of National Socialism.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

To forestall this happening to younger women who are currently caregiving, she educates them about spousal IRAs, which allow nonworking spouses to save for retirement based on household income.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Unified, the nation’s second-largest school system, educates about 390,000 students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

Miss Halsall's proposal has been backed by Lincolnshire football club Sleaford Town Juniors, which runs five girls' teams and educates players about the risk of wearing ill-fitting bras.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

It educates, creates the status quo, and also protests against it.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

I grew up in one of the most left-liberal corners of America, surrounded by educated adults who supported the civil rights movement, opposed the Vietnam War, hated Richard Nixon and loved Israel.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

The quantity of students educated, Medicaid patients treated or carbon emissions avoided can tell an investor about a company’s work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

As Willy observes, it also educated listeners about Puerto Rico with context they didn’t have beforehand, making an album like “Libertad” potentially more approachable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

That’s an equation that incorporates educated guesses, considering that future tax rates are unknown, but the best she can do is project the current system through future years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

‘You are not very well educated but you are really nobody’s fool, I can see that.’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

He also spent time educating families at their homes on the importance of taking public health measures, it added.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

If someone wants to remain independent, they need to continue educating themselves about the changing world we live in as seniors.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Secret Service now regularly hunts for skimmers across U.S. cities while educating merchants to spot them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The museum board said Exposition Park would allow the institution to “have the greatest impact on the broader community, fulfilling our goal of inspiring, engaging and educating a broad and diverse visitorship.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

In the weeks that followed, I found out that while I had set out to reeducate the demoness about dragons, she was educating me in the demonic language.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep


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