Thesaurus results for BOOT (UP)

boot (up)

verb

Definition of boot (up)

as in to prime

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Warm water, low light and a few screen-free minutes may prime the body for rest without pills, apps or expensive gadgets.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Removing product buildup and dead skin cells, whether with a mitt or a scrub like the new Dove Serum+ Radiance Body Scrub, helps smooth and prime your skin for the rest of your routine.

— Ellie Beeck, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of prime

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Cranor said many efforts to educate employees and the public about scams have not been rigorously evaluated.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
The woman is seeking more than $1 million in damages for negligence, gross negligence, invasion of privacy and failure to warn, train or educate, according to the suit.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of educate

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Musically schooled in Vienna, Higginson hired the players, chose the conductors, and shouldered the deficits.

— Joseph Horowitz, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
To that end, the Dolphins will school Willis on how to run and teach the players around him how to block for a running quarterback.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of school

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Intelligence without effective boundaries can pursue an objective exactly as instructed while producing consequences nobody intended.

— Babajide Ojuola, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
An aluminum plant near the laboratory instructed staff to wear masks as a precautionary measure.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of instruct

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The results suggested that the idea of using messenger RNA to train the immune system to attack cancer cells — an approach first devised decades ago — was ripe for further drug development.

— Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Unlike LLMs, which are primarily trained on language, industrial models are taught on manufacturing and engineering data for use in those fields.

— Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of train

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Some companies supplying the AI boom are already making money, Hayes said, pointing to memory chipmakers and Nvidia.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Bathrooms have marble floors and walls of an almost pure-white Dolomite stone, with rain showers and separate tubs supplied with Natura Bissé products in rosemary and white tea scents.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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