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as in exercise
something done over and over in order to develop skill a boxer who's been doing a lot of training with his footwork

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as in apprenticeship
a period of undergoing practical instruction in one's job or career on-the-job training teacher training

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training

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present participle of train
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Recent Examples of training
Noun
Materials from nearby military training areas and firing ranges can also be used to make explosives. Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025 And context matters, like being moved out of bespoke training facilities and into portable cabins to accommodate the men’s senior team during last summer’s pre-season training. Megan Feringa, New York Times, 19 May 2025 The landmark law flooded the higher education system with federal money (and, eventually, lots of student loan debt) with the goal of training generations of new engineers. Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 9 May 2025 Legacy systems, privacy concerns, data security, compliance complexity and workforce training are significant barriers. Murugan Lakshmanan, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for training
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Noun
  • What This Means For You While some cortisol-lowering practices can help reduce stress, such as getting better sleep and doing mindfulness exercises, a cortisol detox is unnecessary.
    Helen Carefoot, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
  • Like in many companies, the pandemic hastened Pirelli's speed of digital research and development exercises.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
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  • The resort’s Wellbeing Center will host a range of wellness activities and programs, aligned with Dr. Chopra’s lifetime teachings and Seven Pillars of Wellbeing.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • But anyone who sticks around for long enough will notice a more insurgent teaching at play: build your identity, guard it, and do it on purpose.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 21 May 2025
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  • The way the industry has done so in recent years is by expanding its marketing of the work as well as building out its apprenticeship programs.
    Dylan Sherman, Arkansas Online, 19 May 2025
  • Thus far, its apprenticeship programs have helped more than 700 people and, in 2023, led to the development of a boutique commercial bakery in San Diego’s Old Town, according to Kitchens for Good.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
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  • She's spent over six months educating her following of over 700,000 about JEB.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Going the extra mile to welcome Latino students A small Catholic university that dates back to 1922, Dominican has a history of educating the children of immigrants — in earlier times those of northern and central European origin.
    Jon Marcus, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025
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  • Pitchers As far as pitching goes, the thesis couldn’t be simpler — do our best to avoid any bias attached to surface stats (outputs) by instead focusing on underlying metrics (inputs).
    John Laghezza, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • State government has been focusing on East Hartford in recent years because the administration of then-Mayor Mike Walsh advanced a series of high-profile, potentially transformative projects.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2025
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  • The Special artist is also preparing to take on her first lead movie role as she was recently cast as gospel star Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was one of the first to appeal to rock ‘n’ roll and R&B audiences, in Amazon MGM Studios’ Rosetta.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
  • As the case was preparing to go to trial, in May 2004, the parties settled.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2025
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  • There’s nothing on the books in Kansas to protect renters, including case law claiming that landlord-tenant exchanges don’t fall under the Consumer Protection Act — a state law that protects consumers from deceptive and unfair trade practices.
    Taylor O’Connor, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
  • Kennedy mentioned Sanders' position during the May 12 news conference at the White House, prompting the senator to reply that the best way to turn the idea into practice is for Trump to support legislation on the issue.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 13 May 2025
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  • In practice, patriotic education is often united with military training, and one of its explicit purposes is to encourage military service.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 May 2025
  • The deficiencies cover overspending in more than 20 agencies across state government, ranging from the state police to the courts, along with the labor, housing, correction, education, early childhood, social services, and public health departments, among others.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2025

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