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adjective

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as in experienced

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as in educated

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schooled

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verb

past tense of school
as in taught
to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field schooled their children in proper etiquette for formal occasions

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  1. experienced
  2. educated
  3. taught
  4. practiced
  5. cultured
  6. civilized
  7. cultivated
  8. knowing
Adjective
  • Lopez hired experienced prospectors from Mexico to bring up more gold.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Redshirt sophomore Ice Brady — the most experienced active forward on the roster — started the first 12 games of the season, but Auriemma replaced her with 6-foot-5 center Jana El Alfy after the team returned from its holiday break against Providence on Dec. 29.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of experienced
Adjective
  • The key is to find people who can make educated guesses, not just take shots in the dark.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Predictive Maintenance No one can predict the future, but AI can analyze past data to make educated guesses about the future.
    Matias Recchia, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of educated
Verb
  • Dinesh and his little cafe taught me a valuable lesson on slow marketing—that a relaxed approach can sometimes be the most effective way to stand out.
    Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • First, rational analysis, traditionally taught in business schools, uses logical reasoning and empirical data to assess situations and outcomes.
    Hulan Hagen, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of taught
Adjective
  • Behind them come a company of sword-bearers dressed in military-style uniforms and dancing a practiced routine to the sound of a fiddle.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The numbers might tell us what people need, but only a practiced marketer's hand can weave those findings into a brand.
    Sahil Sethi, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of practiced
Adjective
  • Nico Paz Nico Paz is the cultured attacking midfield player currently pulling the strings for Como 1907 in Italy.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Incorporation of photosynthetically active algal chloroplasts in cultured mammalian cells towards photosynthesis in animals.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of cultured
Adjective
  • What does ring true until the final frame of the show and into our present-day lives is that civilization and the civilized rarely occupy the same space.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Douyin Warnings From Within China China’s drive to assimilate the Tibetans echoes history elsewhere in the world where Indigenous people were seen by their foreign occupiers as savages who needed to be civilized with boarding schools, causing trauma and abuses.
    Chris Buckley, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of civilized
Adjective
  • The home is located on a quarter-acre of native and cultivated gardens and houses an art studio and yurt.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And the archive, Golia said, reflects Didion’s cultivated awareness of her self-presentation.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
Definition of cultivated
Adjective
  • Might the oversized love throw pillow be a knowing wink to the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name?
    Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The receptionist watches her leave with a knowing look — there is more to come here.
    Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of knowing
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