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repast

[ri-past, -pahst, ree-past, -pahst, ri-past, -pahst] / rɪˈpæst, -ˈpɑst, ˈri pæst, -pɑst, rɪˈpæst, -ˈpɑst /


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The work accelerated during Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims traditionally conduct a dawn-to-dusk fast broken by what in normal times would be a sumptuous repast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

Not long afterward, another male red fox entered the scene of the crime; the purloined repast had been his.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

A prosecutor’s memo describes Caddle as “cold-hearted” and says he even attended the repast after Galdieri’s funeral.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

With a few final prayers, they head to the St. Regis New York for the after party . . . er, repast.

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

Then your grandmother invited us in for the repast but Miss Trotter said she wasn’t up to it and we went home.”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

After this first meal, I like to maul the rest of the meat off the bones to fashion into all manner of repasts throughout the week.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021

As a journalist, he brought not only a good appetite to his work but also a lyrical and dynamic approach to his accounts of notable repasts.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019

All these repasts make me think about my mother, Winkie.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018

Yes, at first, well-heeled travelers took off in these new flying machines, white-gloved hands on their matching luggage, and prepared to enjoy civilized repasts seated at tables.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2010

There's an attractive sort of picnicky atmosphere about these al-fresco repasts in the bush.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde

It can then be copied and repasted somewhere else in an instant.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019

When these things are ready, the pasted cover should be examined and repasted if it has dried in any place.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

So far as he could possibly detect, not one had been altered or repasted on the end.

From A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele

Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity.

From Time Magazine Archive

So after repasting themselves, they made them ready for the journey with takeing repose that night.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson




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