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reexamine

[ree-ig-zam-in] / ˌri ɪgˈzæm ɪn /
VERB
go back over
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My objective is to use the existing comparisons to reexamine “Promising Young Woman,” try to understand Fennell’s intentions, and look at the bleak truths her movie stares straight in the face.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

They called for the state to reexamine whether the rules are adequate to protect salmon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

If the discussion sparked by Anthropic’s CEO and other AI pioneers leads scientists and the public to reexamine longstanding assumptions about mind and awareness, it may mark the beginning of a much broader intellectual shift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

The small sensor tracks hydrogen in flatus, allowing scientists to reexamine long held assumptions about how often people pass gas.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2026

I want to reexamine the van Daans and decide for myself what’s true and what’s been blown out of proportion.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

What’s your take on how punk is reexamined and memorialized today with things like the Punk Museum in Las Vegas, various historic exhibitions, the Ramones’ 50th anniversary, etc?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

They’ve reexamined Supreme Court history several times in recent years, including a new season about Neil Gorsuch we’re featuring on Amicus for the next three weeks.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Dancing’s insouciance is reexamined so frequently throughout the album’s first half that one might read its message as hollow, like a desperate attempt to ignore all of the troubles outside the club.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Led by geology professor Keith Koper, the team reexamined waveform data from the 1979 earthquake along with eight other suspected deep earthquakes that had occurred in northern Utah and southwestern Wyoming.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026

Two hours later, though, Squire finally got him on the phone, and the governor ordered a two-week reprieve, during which experts reexamined the man and sent him not to the chair but to an asylum.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The hearing came amid news that ICE was pausing warehouse purchases and reexamining contracts signed under former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

By carefully reexamining these datasets, the team identified viral genetic material that closely matched known US strains of CLRDV.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026

Nixon’s is a familiar story, but it’s worth reexamining in light of events that unfolded over the weekend.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

What Hnath did in picking up and reexamining this source material, Harner says, was a remarkable act of harnessing that complexity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

He spent several moments more reexamining the cove, glanced again at the river, and finally disappeared, wading slowly back around the sunken ledge.

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White




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