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boot camp

noun

Definition of boot campnext
1
as in basic training

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as in workshop

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Recent Examples of boot camp But my four nights at the Ranch Hudson Valley, the East Coast outpost of the Malibu favorite, reveal that this is neither austere boot camp nor cutting-edge wellness clinic. — Johanna Wolfe, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026 The 2000 film stars Piper Perabo as Violet, an aspiring songwriter with big-city dreams and a gig at a bar that’s like a boot camp for building self-confidence. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026 This talent pool includes four-year and community college graduates, tech boot camp alumni, workforce development program participants, military veterans, and those with unrelated job experiences. — Michelle Sims, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 The kitchen scenes are a combo platter of boot camp, frat house hazing ritual and kung fu movie. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boot camp
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  1. basic training
  2. workshop
  3. clinic
  4. symposium
Noun
  • Ryan completed basic training and Airborne School at Fort Benning, then special forces training at Fort Bragg.
    — Monique John, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The Army's most significant response has been the Future Soldier Preparatory Course, a pre-basic training program primarily at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for recruits who narrowly miss academic or body-fat standards.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of basic training
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  • Attendees explored hands-on stations offering activities like Yutnori games, Korean calligraphy, Hanbok fittings, traditional tea ceremonies, K-Beauty demonstrations and martial arts workshops.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • More than 74,000 people attend the eight-day festival each year, which packs SCAD’s historic theaters and studio spaces with competition titles, features, documentaries, shorts, animation, panels and workshops.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of workshop
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  • Track residual error rates by type, especially omissions, and watch the percentage of notes that leave the clinic without meaningful clinician review.
    — Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Fresh off winning Super Bowl LX MVP honors, running back Kenneth Walker put on an absolute clinic.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
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  • Similar symposiums have been held at the same location in Septembers past, but the tenor of this year’s, hosted by TreePeople, was different.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Those reading the tea leaves even focused on how Warsh kicked off his speech at the economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026
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