rerun
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They were watching a rerun of “The Porter Wagoner Show,” the program that had helped launch Dolly to country music stardom, on a little TV set using rabbit ears, when she appeared.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
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
“Oh. Well, repast, repath, rerun, whatever they called, the food is slammin’,” he growled with his mouth hill of everything.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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He first encountered the original series as a child in the 1970s, watching reruns in syndication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He offers never-ending reruns of the same speech, and at this point it fails to entertain, enlighten or move anyone.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Pluto TV, Paramount’s free streamer, is also expected to play a crucial role in re-energizing the company’s direct-to-consumer business, including by spending more on popular reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 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
Then I remembered that he liked to eat Vienna sausages from the can and watch reruns of Laugh-In, and came to my senses.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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The U.S. reran the training scenario over the two-week engagement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
If you reran the referendum, despite the opinion polls you'd get a very similar result.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
Hoping to clarify the dates for sites containing Châtelperronian and proto-Aurignacian artifacts, Djakovic and colleagues reran the radiocarbon analyses performed by other teams representing 17 sites across France and northern Spain.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 13, 2022
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
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But at the same time, the workers on average have to spend more than six hours “botsitting,” checking the AI output, fixing mistakes and rerunning the prompt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
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
"Under his leadership, the Labour Party is answering the questions of the 2020s and 2030s, 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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