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Recent Examples of reteach
Patients use special exercises and technology, like electric stimulation, to reteach their nervous system to control movement.
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Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
Wallinger suffered an aneurysm in 2001 and had to reteach himself to talk and play instruments.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Advertisement Searles set out to reteach the bears some boundaries using a combination of non-lethal methods — sometimes a gentle word, sometimes a sting to the hindquarters with rubber buckshot — that have netted ursine attention and respect.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
And staff are working around the clock to reteach foundational skills -- such as first-grade phonics -- that some students lost during the pandemic.
—al, 10 Nov. 2021
During effective math programs, for example, tutors don’t simply reteach the previous year’s lessons.
—al, 25 Aug. 2021
The fact is that, many times, the future requires us to reteach and retool the organization.
—Brad Cousins, Forbes, 18 May 2021
While Easter and Passover use food to help reteach the lessons, the holy month of Ramadan is about going without food and drink during the daylight hours.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
Teachers also don’t have the luxury of pausing what needs to be taught this year to reteach last year’s concepts.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
Wallinger suffered an aneurysm in 2001 and had to reteach himself to talk and play instruments.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Advertisement Searles set out to reteach the bears some boundaries using a combination of non-lethal methods — sometimes a gentle word, sometimes a sting to the hindquarters with rubber buckshot — that have netted ursine attention and respect.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
And staff are working around the clock to reteach foundational skills -- such as first-grade phonics -- that some students lost during the pandemic.
—al, 10 Nov. 2021
During effective math programs, for example, tutors don’t simply reteach the previous year’s lessons.
—al, 25 Aug. 2021
The fact is that, many times, the future requires us to reteach and retool the organization.
—Brad Cousins, Forbes, 18 May 2021
While Easter and Passover use food to help reteach the lessons, the holy month of Ramadan is about going without food and drink during the daylight hours.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
Teachers also don’t have the luxury of pausing what needs to be taught this year to reteach last year’s concepts.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reteach
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Long-term strategies on the part of rich destination countries should focus on training or retraining workers from poorer source countries.Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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To do this, the American Kennel Club recommends, retrain them to become used to the sound.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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The state wants Exxon to pay billions of dollars and to reeducate the public that the vast majority of plastic isn’t recyclable and is just trash.Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
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Like Astrid and Lydia before her, Gen Z is being reeducated via horror-movie camp humor.Armond White, National Review, 11 Sep. 2024
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Writing to a Jesuit missionary in China, Leibniz floated the idea that the binary system might help to convert the Chinese to Christianity, by familiarizing them with the Biblical concept of creation ex nihilo.Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Smartphone users should familiarize themselves with encrypted communication to protect their data.Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Reteach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reteach. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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