reteach
verb
re·teach
(ˌ)rē-ˈtēch 
retaught
(ˌ)rē-ˈtȯt
; reteaching
; reteaching
: to teach (someone or something) again
She decided to reteach the lesson the next day.
took up the guitar again and retaught himself to play
Examples of reteach in a Sentence
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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
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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
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“Reteach.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reteach. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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