retrain

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Recent Examples of retrain According to the legislation, each National Guard will get the option to either stay with their units — and get retrained in another specialty — or join the Space Force. Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025 People might be retrained or verbally disciplined, but they are almost never fired. Amanda Chicago Lewis, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 The outfielders were retrained to improve their jumps, focusing on the quickness of the first step rather than moving in the correct direction. Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025 Sound therapies can be helpful as well, as can tinnitus retraining therapy. Daryl Austin, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for retrain
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retrain
Verb
  • Researchers with the Yale Humanitarian Lab have identified a systematic campaign by Russia to abduct and reeducate Ukrainian children as Russian citizens and future soldiers.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 21 May 2025
  • Canada and Alaska took Indigenous children, including some from Cambridge Bay, away to be reeducated in abusive residential schools, where thousands died.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Molinar explained in-depth the three parts of the instructional framework: first teach; demonstration of learning; and reteach and challenge.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 May 2025
  • But every so often, an opportunity emerges to reteach some basics.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The water initiates a chemical reaction that lasts about six hours.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
  • Mamdani, a democratic socialist, shocked political observers Tuesday by leading New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 7 points before New York even began initiating the ranked choice calculations, drawing a concession from Cuomo and declaring victory himself.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • Officials pledged to inform the public through official channels as the situation evolves.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • There is no need to inform domains about their sluggish new competition.
    Michael Gargiulo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Occasional weeklong stays in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights during school breaks with my uncle Derrick, an artist who moved up in his early twenties, familiarized me with how to swipe a MetroCard with relative ease.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
  • Hours before players are required to be in the building, Gadsden walked through plays on the field by himself every morning, saying the play calls aloud to familiarize himself with the playbook.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025

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