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rerun

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






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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

She was staring at her television, watching a rerun of Jeopardy.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

He first encountered the original series as a child in the 1970s, watching reruns in syndication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

Ampex invented the first videotape recorder for professional use in 1956, a $50,000 machine that CBS used to tape and broadcast reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Lily is curled between us, watching reruns of Wheel of Fortune on Hulu.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Even so, “when he and Russell reran their data set of opinion articles through the current version, the underlying assessments were similar to those in the earlier iteration.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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

But a Labour party spokesperson said that the party under Sir Keir was looking to the future, "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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