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rerun

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






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She told me about the movie, “Teen Witch,” which used to rerun on the Disney Channel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

A Mediterranean summer on fire has become a genre now, a seasonal rerun we thumb past on the way to something else.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

The news conference itself felt at times like a rerun of the previous launch news conference when the fight was first revealed.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

“The risk of a rerun of last year’s tariff chaos has clearly increased, but the situation is still a long way from reaching that degree of disorder.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

“It is not appropriate for the two of you to watch together,” and she flips the channel, stops on an afternoon rerun of Lawrence Welk.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Her earliest memories of “Star Trek” are from her childhood watching reruns with her dad — “Voyager” was her favorite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

We lived in the missions’ afterglow, with orange-flavored Tang, syndicated “Star Trek” reruns, and “Star Wars” filling in for actual lunar landings.

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

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

I learned about lockers and reruns and Giga-Volumizer.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The U.S. reran the training scenario over the two-week engagement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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

“There would be a major boycott of TV Land or any network that wanted to start rerunning ‘Cosby,’” he said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 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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