exercise
Example Sentences
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Marine Corps was also taken to Okinawa for exercises.
The army, navy, air force and rocket force have been dispatched for the drills which include live-fire exercises, the Chinese military said.
From BBC
"There are no conditions for the exercise of the rights of freedom of expression, association or peaceful assembly," the United Nations' top human rights official Volker Türk said.
From BBC
During a seven-nation polar exercise in Canada earlier this year to test equipment worth millions of dollars, the U.S. military’s all-terrain arctic vehicles broke down after 30 minutes because hydraulic fluids congealed in the cold.
If you were stressed before you began this exercise, your heart rate probably slowed and stabilized as levels of cortisol and other stress hormones decreased in your blood.
From Los Angeles Times
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