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as in entourages
a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person
a movie star who never goes anywhere without a train of personal assistants to cater to his every whim and need
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as in fleets
a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management
a train of supply trucks making its way to the army encampment
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as in sequences
a series of things linked together
you've broken my train of thought—now what were we talking about?
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as in prepares
to bring to a proper or desired state of fitness
has been training track-and-field athletes at the school for years
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as in teaches
to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field
will train the students in good study habits
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as in focuses
to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective
train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game
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as in aims
to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal
trained his eyes on the distant bull's-eye
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as in equips
to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function
he's so experienced that they usually use him to train new recruits
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Recent Examples of trains
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2026
Those figures include crimes aboard buses, trains, and at bus stops and stations, as well as on other CTA property such as garages.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Behind him rose a two-story wall of solid rock where, if all goes as planned, by 2035 trains will speed in and out of the tunnel, easing a bottleneck on the busiest passenger rail corridor in the nation.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
However, test trains, construction vehicles and equipment will be active on the railroad right-of-way and the tracks throughout the weekend.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
In 1964, the CTA began running trains on the line again and called it the Skokie Swift, but the line ran only as a shuttle between the Howard and Dempster stops.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 May 2026
Naked dresses remain banned, as do dresses with imposing volumes and long trains.
—Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
The warehouse boom in Illinois took off in earnest in the early 2000s with the construction of the CenterPoint Intermodal Center, the largest inland port in North America, where trucks and trains swap goods.
—Justin Mayo, New York Times, 12 May 2026
The transit agency projects that more than 49,000 people will board the trains at the new stations each weekday.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
Dan Albano, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
Pumped and sweaty, Jesse Ackerman trains in solitude during UF’s semester break, putting the team’s new weight room through its paces.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
The 26-member Board of Regents has one voting student regent and one nonvoting student regent-designate, who trains for a year before taking the voting seat when the prior member cycles off.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Human intervention keeps the risk of false positives low and trains the technology to become more accurate, said Neal Driscoll, geology and geophysics professor at the University of California, San Diego, and founder of ALERTCalifornia.
—ABC News, 4 May 2026
The School of Continuing Education and Professional Development at Miami Dade College also has a broadband and fiber optic technician program, which trains those who install and repair high-speed internet networks.
—Sarah Moreno
may 1, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
The world’s largest scuba-diving organization, which has issued more than 31 million certifications since 1966 and trains roughly three-quarters of the world’s divers, is using its global network as a force for change.
—Time Contributors, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
The place trains you to slow down.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
Although the 162-game marathon trains you not to look too far ahead, the early signals are not meaningless.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
Plus, Amtrak has added more trains between San Diego and Los Angeles for the World Cup, making the Surfliner especially great for summer travel this year.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2026
Those figures include crimes aboard buses, trains, and at bus stops and stations, as well as on other CTA property such as garages.
—Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Behind him rose a two-story wall of solid rock where, if all goes as planned, by 2035 trains will speed in and out of the tunnel, easing a bottleneck on the busiest passenger rail corridor in the nation.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
However, test trains, construction vehicles and equipment will be active on the railroad right-of-way and the tracks throughout the weekend.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
In 1964, the CTA began running trains on the line again and called it the Skokie Swift, but the line ran only as a shuttle between the Howard and Dempster stops.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 May 2026
Naked dresses remain banned, as do dresses with imposing volumes and long trains.
—Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
The warehouse boom in Illinois took off in earnest in the early 2000s with the construction of the CenterPoint Intermodal Center, the largest inland port in North America, where trucks and trains swap goods.
—Justin Mayo, New York Times, 12 May 2026
The transit agency projects that more than 49,000 people will board the trains at the new stations each weekday.
—Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
Verb
Espinoza, who trains club with the La Mirada Armada, won her first section titles but took more pride in the relay.
—Dan Albano, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
Pumped and sweaty, Jesse Ackerman trains in solitude during UF’s semester break, putting the team’s new weight room through its paces.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
The 26-member Board of Regents has one voting student regent and one nonvoting student regent-designate, who trains for a year before taking the voting seat when the prior member cycles off.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Human intervention keeps the risk of false positives low and trains the technology to become more accurate, said Neal Driscoll, geology and geophysics professor at the University of California, San Diego, and founder of ALERTCalifornia.
—ABC News, 4 May 2026
The School of Continuing Education and Professional Development at Miami Dade College also has a broadband and fiber optic technician program, which trains those who install and repair high-speed internet networks.
—Sarah Moreno
may 1, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026
The world’s largest scuba-diving organization, which has issued more than 31 million certifications since 1966 and trains roughly three-quarters of the world’s divers, is using its global network as a force for change.
—Time Contributors, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
The place trains you to slow down.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
Although the 162-game marathon trains you not to look too far ahead, the early signals are not meaningless.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trains
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Long before private jets and sprawling entourages became standard for global superstars, Starr and his bandmates — Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison — were simply four young men navigating fame together, suitcase by suitcase.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Sure, there were others — boyfriends came and went, entourages, too.—
Merle Ginsberg,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Jan. 2026
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Designs were standardized within fleets but with enough variance from each other to keep the enemy stymied and not cause associations of a certain pattern with a certain type or class of ship.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
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The plan is to offer the service to businesses with large EV fleets, reducing their overall power bills.—
TIm Stevens,
ArsTechnica,
4 May 2026
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Conditions have eased slightly in recent days, with shorter queues at fuel stations after the government increased supplies, but concerns persist across sectors.—
Julhas Alam,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Meanwhile there were no queues to enter the US and Russian pavilions and the Israeli building stood locked and empty (a smaller satellite show was staged outside the main Giardini instead).—
Fiona Sinclair Scott,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
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Its AlphaFold system, which predicts the structure of proteins from their amino acid sequences, helped scientists better understand the virus that causes COVID-19 and contributed to advances in protein-structure prediction that were recognized with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.—
Alison Eldridge,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
11 May 2026
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At the time of the interviews, neither group had compared its sequences to those generated by the other group.—
Helen Branswell,
STAT,
11 May 2026
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During the most classic hero’s journey of them all, Odysseus prepares assiduously for his encounter with the Sirens, tying himself to the mast long before he can be tempted.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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As SpaceX prepares for the first flight of V3 of its Starship vehicle, the company is facing a new legal challenge from local residents who claim its launches damage their homes, Space News reports.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at the University of Pennsylvania.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Rooting for a hapless team for nearly two decades teaches you to find pleasures beyond victory.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026
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The hours-long proceeding focuses on whether jurors might have been wrongly influenced by Hill — and how Toal evaluated that question in 2024.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
13 May 2026
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Revenue from its Cloud Intelligence Group, which focuses on cloud computing and AI developments, jumped 38% in the January-March quarter from a year ago.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 May 2026
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The 4,305-square-foot location nestled in Via Signorelli — a 10-minute walk from the city’s ADI Design Museum — aims to house all the activities of the firm under one roof, as the company has pivoted its business following investment from Gyrus Capital last year.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
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Through an array of educational programming, events and activities for both children and adults, the Garden aims to create, share and apply plant wisdom to the world, according to the news release.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2026
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“Trains.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trains. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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