Thesaurus results for BOOT (UP)

boot (up)

verb

Definition of boot (up)

as in to prime

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Removing product buildup and dead skin cells, whether with a mitt or a scrub like the new Dove Serum+ Radiance Body Scrub, helps smooth and prime your skin for the rest of your routine.

— Ellie Beeck, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
Perhaps another year of development will prime him to move up the lineup, but he might be better suited as a valuable third-liner who can contribute on special teams.

— Peter Baugh, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of prime

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Other universities may have a medical school to graduate physicians, or a school of nursing, or a program to educate pharmacists.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
In his view, Party operatives, who tend to be young, coastal, and college-educated, put their own policy preferences ahead of the median voter, who is a white fiftysomething with a high-school education living in the suburbs.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of educate

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Musically schooled in Vienna, Higginson hired the players, chose the conductors, and shouldered the deficits.

— Joseph Horowitz, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
To that end, the Dolphins will school Willis on how to run and teach the players around him how to block for a running quarterback.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of school

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People inside Notre Dame Stadium were instructed to remain there, while others on campus were told to shelter in place.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
As a result, military doctors are instructed not to prescribe testosterone therapy to anyone hoping to have children in the near future.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of instruct

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Scientists analyze mutations in a patient’s tumor and create a personalized therapy designed to train the immune system to recognize and attack the cancer.

— Sally C. Pipes, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service (Alpert JFS) brought MHFA to Palm Beach County in 2014 and has since trained thousands of community members (at no cost) to be that first line of support.

— Courtney Marx, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of train

Verb

This all comes as Anthropic and OpenAI gear up for what's expected to be historic initial public offerings.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
In late summer, when almond husks split open, workers at Creekside Farming in Madera gear up machinery to shake the trees.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of gear up

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The water level of a major reservoir supplying the bustling capital city of Jakarta -- the world's biggest metropolis -- is dropping inch by inch.

— EDNA TARIGAN, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Its facilities will process food waste that would otherwise be disposed of, while the resulting renewable natural gas can be supplied to markets seeking lower-carbon fuel sources.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026

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