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education

[ej-oo-kay-shuhn] / ˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən /


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At the same time, the country is facing fierce protests denouncing the surging cost of living and demanding higher spending on education and other public services.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

Mentorship as critique, yes, but also as education and support.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Nguyen said that in a few years he’ll have enough money to buy a house, with enough left over for his two children’s education.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

More details of its plans are expected to come after former minister Alan Milburn has published his review on young people not in education, employment and training.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

All the education you got, pretending to be a whatnot—what good was any of it, if you can destroy the rest of your life with a single outburst?

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

With elegant symmetry and a cool, genteel prose style, Ms. Li tracks these parallel stories, exploring the duo’s worldly educations and the ruthless sacrifices to love and friendship they make in pursuit of their ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Experts and couples interviewed by AFP spoke of a combination of factors, including longer educations and growing professional ambitions among women, along with rising divorce rates and financial strain on young professionals.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has revoked the school's license permanently, and said that students' educations would continue through online learning options or transfers to other institutions – especially for orphaned students.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Many were buoyed by the postwar economic boom, access to affordable college educations and workplace pensions, and growth in the housing and stock markets, MarketWatch recently reported.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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