teachable
Example Sentences
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I always like to find the teachable moments in anything negative that happens.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“But each disaster is a teachable moment, and I’m afraid the defensive tone of this report suggests a limited institutional capacity to learn from bitter experience.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
That line stayed with me when I spoke to Gregory Rogers, a criminal-justice lecturer and former FBI agent who’s been trying to turn the assassination into a teachable moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
This should be a teachable moment, the adulting equivalent of an afterschool special.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025
When Sarah and Daniel and I run through our allowances and ask to borrow money from our folks, we get a huge lecture, and then they make it a teachable moment.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
