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rerun

[ree-ruhn, ree-ruhn] / riˈrʌn, ˈriˌrʌn /






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The security measures follow a cheating scandal that forced a rerun of a test taken by two million prospective medical students.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Barker wisely fashioned “Obsession” as a contemporary movie, taking inspiration from a “Simpsons” rerun and revamping it into something the socially conscious, explainer video-addicted YouTube audience might enjoy.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2026

And Thursday night’s performance, while not wholly irrelevant, was just another television rerun broadcast to a less-than-mass audience.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Mitie is asking the High Court to "set aside" the decision and award the contract to Mitie, or rerun the tendering process, or order the government to pay damages.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2026

Julie and Bri were sitting on the living room sofa, watching an I Lcve Lucy rerun.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Flagship shows such as the 7.30 evening current affairs programme and its breakfast shows on Thursday will not go ahead, with reruns, pre-programmed shows and BBC content to plug the gap.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

Those avocado green appliances, Formica countertops, and linoleum floors were just as crappy as they appear in those sitcom reruns.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

That show is growing duller, and more lethargic and repetitive, by the day, like watching reruns of a canceled sitcom.

From Salon Feb. 13, 2026

I wanted to watch reruns of Trigonometry and Tears.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Even so, “when he and Russell reran their data set of opinion articles through the current version, the underlying assessments were similar to those in the earlier iteration.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

In December 2023, when the researchers reran some of the audio files, they found that the updated Whisper had eliminated most of the fabrications found in their previous tests.

From Science Magazine Apr. 26, 2024

If you reran the referendum, despite the opinion polls you'd get a very similar result.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2023

PBS, which had just started broadcasting in 1970, aired them every day, then reran them every night.

From Slate Jun. 10, 2022

Times article about the Freedom Writers reran in a New York paper.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

It is hard to imagine a state ordering a rerunning of primaries under new districts to gut old Section 2 districts.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2026

It also boasts the hook of reviving proven IP, and though it’s not exactly “Star Trek,” the original ran for nine years and is rerunning still; it has a seat in the collective unconscious.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2024

Once a show reached the 100-episode mark, it could be sold into syndication, filling up daytime programming schedules for local television stations, rerunning on cable networks or outside of the United States.

From Reuters May 22, 2023

But a Labour party spokesperson said that the party under Sir Keir was looking to the future, "not rerunning old arguments".

From BBC May 25, 2021

I kept rerunning the dream all day until the coach’s whistle blew and he called “Race-off!” and there I was, heading across the field to the starting line.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli




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