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re-educate

British

verb

to teach or show (someone) something new or in a different way

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re-education noun

Example Sentences

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"Now we know that the donated blood stem cells re-educate the recipient animal's immune system to not only accept the donated islets, but also not attack its healthy tissues, including islets," Kim said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

Local authorities later stepped up efforts to track, control and re-educate Uyghurs.

From Reuters • Jul. 15, 2022

“I love it … to be able to compare it back and basically kind of re-educate, or educate people for the first time, of Babe Ruth,” Stevens said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2021

Mr. Bossert would not re-educate him each time.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2019

During and since the Great War efforts have been made on a grand scale to rehabilitate, re-educate, and restore to usefulness the war's wounded soldiers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

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