be taught
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But it articulates the logic hovering around the episode: If Americans can be taught to eat correctly, perhaps they will require less care — and perhaps the government can spend less providing it.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Ieuan Horgan says his music lessons had to be taught in silence.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
What the ancients understood, and what remains true now, is that empathy can be taught through the sustained act of attending to another’s experience in the presence of others.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
A lab-raised monkey, born without a fear of snakes, can be taught to fear them—but not to fear flowers, a difference that suggests an inherited readiness to learn a survival strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But Father’s patience, his almost mystic rapport with the harmonies of watchworks, these were not things that could be taught.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
