be trained
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Bear surrendered his collar in March after a decade of being a very good boy as one of the first dogs in the country to be trained to detect the scent of koala fur.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Viticulture workers had to be trained from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The people leading health campaigns and creating and sharing messages should be trained in and have experience with health communication, which draws on behavioral science, sociology, and marketing.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Now all attention will be trained on three potential Republican holdouts in the Senate: Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The guinea pig, that immunologically famous animal, can be trained to perceive fantastically small amounts of nitrobenzene by his nose, without the help of Freund’s adjuvants or haptene carriers.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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