rerun
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Barker wisely fashioned “Obsession” as a contemporary movie, taking inspiration from a “Simpsons” rerun and revamping it into something the socially conscious, explainer video-addicted YouTube audience might enjoy.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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 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
Whereas when Oregon goes up 34-6 at the half, you’re stuck with that mess, and need to choose between a rerun of “Elf” or actually talking to your family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
“Oh. Well, repast, repath, rerun, whatever they called, the food is slammin’,” he growled with his mouth hill of everything.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
In one of his first monologues, he pointed out his boss in the audience, then-network-head Les Moonves, manning a switch that could kill Colbert’s show in favor of reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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
That show is growing duller, and more lethargic and repetitive, by the day, like watching reruns of a canceled sitcom.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
The vampire business smacked of Dark Shadows reruns, and I refused to take it seriously.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
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
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
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
