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rerun

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






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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

“How to Win a Trade War” shows us that, even in the age of Trump, many of today’s trade tensions are a historical rerun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

“Least as in least likely to offend the president with the rerun of ‘Comics Unleashed’ from 2007 featuring Paula Poundstone and Andy Dick.”

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 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

Grandma Post let us have leftover peanut-butter pie for breakfast while she played solitaire, occasionally looking up through her thick glasses at the Perry Mason rerun she had on, the volume blasting.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

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

I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal May 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

All those Friends reruns, the soaring loft ceilings and funky-colored walls?

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

Kull said that in response to that criticism, they reran the study in 2018 and incorporated those arguments.

From Washington Post May 26, 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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