reeducate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to educate again, as for new purposes.
Companies are reeducating some of the traditional energy sector workforce to pivot to new careers in green energy or technology.
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to rehabilitate or reform through education, training, indoctrination, etc..
If the state invests in reeducating inmates, a combination of vocational programs and counseling could lower recidivism.
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to rehabilitate after injury or illness for resumption of activities, as with physical therapy, assistive devices, or adaptive equipment.
Electrical stimulation may reeducate contractions of the quadriceps.
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Among other measures, it promised to reeducate nurses on how to prevent blood clots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
“I will take all the responsibility and call off all my performances to deeply reflect and reeducate myself,” said Mr. Li, who uses the stage name “House” and reportedly has 136,000 followers on Weibo.
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2023
To this day it remains the only known treatment that can permanently reeducate the immune system.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
This year, Tasc employees, family members and friends logged 2,698 miles of walking or running to support the Walking with the Wounded Project, which helps retrain and reeducate wounded soldiers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2013
Then Brendan Reilly took that research and used it to reeducate the instincts of his doctors.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Patients who had signed off on the two-drug treatment but whose pills hadn’t yet reached the post office had to be recontacted to consent to receiving misoprostol alone and reeducated on how to use it.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
“If people want to change work, or to be reeducated or to move to a better place to find work, they will be supported in this,” she has said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2021
The usual script for what would follow: Rowling vanishes the tweet, apologizes and goes on a listening tour until she had been sufficiently reeducated to explain how wrong she’d been.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2019
In a response, Reeves said he’s tweaked travel policies, reeducated supervisors on the proper use of state police assets and employees and reviewed the issuance of credit cards.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
General Dwight D. Eisenhower understood that the German people needed to be reeducated.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
That label was dropped after the hospital submitted a plan to fix the problems, including reeducating nurses on measures to prevent blood clots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
“It feels like reeducating and having love and compassion for each other. If you come, it’s showing support.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
So effectively, with Facebook, you’re putting someone in a room and putting speakers all around the room and reeducating them.
From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2020
Begin the emotionally laborious process of reeducating millions of males, even despite the valid criticism that women experiencing harassment don’t particularly want to also be in charge of educating harassers.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017
As you can see, this did not leave me much time to follow my original program of reeducating the demoness about dragons.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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