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reexamine

[ree-ig-zam-in] / ˌri ɪgˈzæm ɪn /
VERB
go back over
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In the same way that cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to recontextualize their thoughts and feelings to produce different behaviors, writing stand-up requires people to reexamine their struggles and recontextualize them into punch lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

My objective is to use the existing comparisons to reexamine “Promising Young Woman,” try to understand Fennell’s intentions, and look at the bleak truths her movie stares straight in the face.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

They called for the state to reexamine whether the rules are adequate to protect salmon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

If the discussion sparked by Anthropic’s CEO and other AI pioneers leads scientists and the public to reexamine longstanding assumptions about mind and awareness, it may mark the beginning of a much broader intellectual shift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

A former student of Hiatt’s at the Harvard School of Public Health, Kochi had begun to reexamine his program under the constant pressure from Farmer.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

What’s your take on how punk is reexamined and memorialized today with things like the Punk Museum in Las Vegas, various historic exhibitions, the Ramones’ 50th anniversary, etc?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

They’ve reexamined Supreme Court history several times in recent years, including a new season about Neil Gorsuch we’re featuring on Amicus for the next three weeks.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

The team later reexamined the preserved samples using histopathology, molecular testing and DNA sequencing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Dancing’s insouciance is reexamined so frequently throughout the album’s first half that one might read its message as hollow, like a desperate attempt to ignore all of the troubles outside the club.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Captain Reed reexamined the scrap of canvas and tapped each of the letters with his fingers: REED.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

The hearing came amid news that ICE was pausing warehouse purchases and reexamining contracts signed under former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

Examining and reexamining Blume’s work as an adult also gave Oppenheimer a better perspective of her writing style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

By carefully reexamining these datasets, the team identified viral genetic material that closely matched known US strains of CLRDV.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026

Nixon’s is a familiar story, but it’s worth reexamining in light of events that unfolded over the weekend.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

Men of all nations are reexamining the beliefs by which they live.

From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman


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