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If he was sitting next to me on a plane and asking for single-parenting advice, I’d tell him to find someone to teach him how to cook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
But institutions teach lessons beyond their formal curriculum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The show promises to teach Americans how to eat “real food,” presenting recognizable ingredients and home cooking as an antidote to a processed-food culture portrayed as artificial, addictive and imposed from above.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
“It is more difficult to teach them the requisite skills from afar,” New York Fed researchers noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
This reminded Jonah of a spoof he’d seen once in MAD magazine that was supposed to teach kids how to lie convincingly.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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If the story of vitamin C and cancer teaches us anything, it is that science rarely moves in straight lines.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
"If everyone is the same, it teaches you in life you've got to have uniforms depending on your job," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Zhang, who teaches students to race at a track on the outskirts of the city, hopes tourism will further burnish the city's biker reputation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Fauci now teaches at Georgetown University and gives talks at various conferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Later, Patti teaches me how to use the phone to call Rani.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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Last week, I wrote about the pasta that finally taught me how to shop at the farmers market.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Many years ago I worked in Skewen and taught her niece. The whole family were lovely. I would often bump into her in local shops and restaurants and was she was always lovely," said Maggie.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Who were the songwriters that taught you how to create an image?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
During his school years, under martial law in the 1970s and ’80s, Lin and others of his generation were taught to identify themselves as Chinese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“She taught to the thwack of the hickory sprout,” Preacher Parr remembered.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Unlike mainstream schools, madrasas take girls of all ages and some, especially those run privately, are teaching more than religious classes.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I wouldn’t be sitting here right now if it wasn’t for Randy teaching me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
While in grad school, Roberts built a website called Fantastic Maps, teaching himself how to optimize the site so it would show up high in Google search results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Success Academy is effectively the state’s fourth-biggest public-school district, teaching about 22,000 of Mr. Mamdani’s underage constituents at 59 sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
On the days when I wasn’t teaching, I also helped make ends meet as the director of the local United Service Organizations, or USO, assisting members of the military to find jobs and housing.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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