educate
verb (used with object)
to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling.
was educating
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past progressiveof educate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Woods declined to specify the number of Walmart employees who have taken part in the program so far, noting that the biggest challenge was educating employees on what doulas actually do.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
One woman responded by saying she felt she was "educating" her GP about mesh.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023
She said she was educating herself on the history of blackface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
The Nevada trooper first told Stephen Lara the highway patrol was educating drivers “about violations they may not realize they’re committing,” and that he’d been pulled over for following a tanker truck too closely.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021
In the weeks that followed, I found out that while I had set out to reeducate the demoness about dragons, she was educating me in the demonic language.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
