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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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The work accelerated during Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims traditionally conduct a dawn-to-dusk fast broken by what in normal times would be a sumptuous repast.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2024

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

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

“A delightful repast, delicately prepared and elegantly served,” he announced to no one in particular.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

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

A pineapple upside-down cake and an evening with Mitch McConnell would both be sweet repasts, except for the evening with Mitch McConnell.

From Washington Post Jul. 22, 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

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

It was about this time that we have the first record of a social party in our city now so celebrated for its elegant entertainments and luxurious repasts.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

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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