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repast

[ri-past, -pahst, ree-past, -pahst, ri-past, -pahst] / rɪˈpæst, -ˈpɑst, ˈri pæst, -pɑst, rɪˈpæst, -ˈpɑst /


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Not long afterward, another male red fox entered the scene of the crime; the purloined repast had been his.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

A prosecutor’s memo describes Caddle as “cold-hearted” and says he even attended the repast after Galdieri’s funeral.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

With a few final prayers, they head to the St. Regis New York for the after party . . . er, repast.

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

When they host, however, it's a more modest repast, not because of finances, but simply because they don't have much interest in cooking or baking.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021

But nobody made it seem weird that there were homeless people at the repast.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

After this first meal, I like to maul the rest of the meat off the bones to fashion into all manner of repasts throughout the week.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021

As a journalist, he brought not only a good appetite to his work but also a lyrical and dynamic approach to his accounts of notable repasts.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019

All these repasts make me think about my mother, Winkie.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018

Yes, at first, well-heeled travelers took off in these new flying machines, white-gloved hands on their matching luggage, and prepared to enjoy civilized repasts seated at tables.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2010

They had always fish or flesh at breakfast, and were never without one or both at the repasts of noon and evening.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

It can then be copied and repasted somewhere else in an instant.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019

When these things are ready, the pasted cover should be examined and repasted if it has dried in any place.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

So far as he could possibly detect, not one had been altered or repasted on the end.

From A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele

Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity.

From Time Magazine Archive

So after repasting themselves, they made them ready for the journey with takeing repose that night.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson


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