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teachable moment
[ tee-chuh-buhl moh-muhnt ]
noun
- a specific occurrence, situation, or experience that can be used to teach people about something more general:
Her death created a teachable moment about prescription drug abuse.
Word History and Origins
Origin of teachable moment1
Example Sentences
If you’re single, you could take unwanted questioning as a teachable moment.
Parks’ and voting rights organizers’ persistence offers a teachable moment for young activists.
This stew isn’t just memorable, it offers a teachable moment.
Historians say Tenayuca’s resilience and the impact she had at such a young age, provide a teachable moment for young people looking to find a way to make a difference in their communities.
Bill Spriggs hopes this is a teachable moment for economics.
And so now we need to remember a very wise maxim: A teachable moment only has value if you are willing to be taught.
The students, a handful of them Democratic activists, nod appreciatively at what the president might call a “teachable moment.”
It takes far less than 46 days for a teachable moment to devolve into an airing of fetid undercurrents from the American id.
“This is a teachable moment for the White House,” Garrett said.
When Obama heralds another “teachable moment,” it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
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