"teachable moment" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: teachable moments [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} teachable moment (plural teachable moments)
  1. (education) The time at which learning a topic becomes easiest. Categories (topical): Education
    Sense id: en-teachable_moment-en-noun-fLT506vd Topics: education
  2. (figurative, transferred sense) A difficult situation from which one can draw conclusions about unsuccessful techniques, approaches, etc. taken, and handle similar situations differently in the future. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-teachable_moment-en-noun-J~1sqv8~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57

Inflected forms

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