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lesson

[les-uhn] / ˈlɛs ən /




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"There aren't even enough chairs. We have to go and find some at the start of every lesson," the 16-year-old, who did not want to give his name, says of his school.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The lesson of history is that alliance systems often prove more resilient in retrospect than contemporary observers expect at the time,” they write.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The lesson from Penn State isn’t simply that hazing can take shocking forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Building on last week’s lesson, this soup starts in the oven, where carrots, sweet potatoes, scallions, miso, hot honey and a deliberately assertive amount of spice get deeply caramelized before ever meeting the stockpot.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

I had to skip it, because to do both the lesson and the picture would get me home so late that Ma and Ba would demand to know where I’d been.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

By taking lessons from 7-Eleven’s model in Japan, Mauricio Leyva bets he can refuel the brand’s growth in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"We need to get out much quicker than that, and that's one of the biggest lessons we have to take from the game today."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Some of the other kids have money to try things now — sports, academic enrichment, music lessons, language lessons, vacations, summer camps — because their parents have more money left even after saving for college.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

It also offered weekly salsa and bachata lessons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The three girls had been taking lessons at Mr. McGuire's studio since the beginning of the school year.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene




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