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Examples of basic training in a Sentence
Our son is in basic training.
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By December of that year, the service saw the first seven Guardians to enlist directly into the Space Force from basic training.
—Brett Tingley, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
He’s been away for what feels like years (but is actually a matter of months) in basic training.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Their personal experiences in the WAC, from basic training in Georgia to their main postal assignment in Europe, broadly inspired the film’s events.
—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
Every battle scene, basic training montage, or sequence of R&R has a secondhand quality, as if they were hastily cobbled together from memories of other war films.
—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1914, in the meaning defined above
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“Basic training.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/basic%20training. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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basic training
noun
: the first part of training for a military recruit
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