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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reeducate .
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Examples
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Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism are routinely "reeducated" by Chinese authorities and asked to denounce the Dalai Lama, whom they regard as their spiritual leader.
China and the Church 2008
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Building communist utopia: 1 million refugees, hundreds of thousands of "reeducated" political prisoners, basic human rights suppressed, economy ruined while the rest of Asia is thriving
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We were to live in villages among the peasants and be 'reeducated' by them.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991
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He is required to labor with workers and peasants and even to be "reeducated" by them.
An Exchange on The Human Prospect Olson, Robert L. 1974
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Thus, despite all of the minority groups purged or "reeducated" by the Bureaucratic State, the pure mathematicians went unsuspected about the destruction of that state, innocent even in their own minds of revolutionary motives.
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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The cells were extracted and "reeducated" to attack the virus using samples of HIV also taken from individual patients.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He commits thoughtcrime, has an illicit affair with a subversive sexpot, is caught, tortured, and "reeducated" to the doublethinking ways of the state.
Atlantic Ave. 2009
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He commits thoughtcrime, has an illicit affair with a subversive sexpot, is caught, tortured, and "reeducated" to the doublethinking ways of the state.
Atlantic Ave. 2009
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He commits thoughtcrime, has an illicit affair with a subversive sexpot, is caught, tortured, and "reeducated" to the doublethinking ways of the state.
Atlantic Ave. 2009
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He commits thoughtcrime, has an illicit affair with a subversive sexpot, is caught, tortured, and "reeducated" to the doublethinking ways of the state.
Atlantic Ave. 2009
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