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reread

[ree-reed, ree-reed] / riˈrid, ˈriˌrid /
VERB
read again
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He even thinks the tech could get people to reread old favorites: "Now is the time to maybe dive into areas where it was really hard to do in the past."

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

As a boss, Reilly was “extraordinarily demanding,” Ross said, adding, “I reread pieces of direct mail five and six times now because of him.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Mock, who reread The Lord of the Rings every year from fourth grade through ninth grade, has simpler dreams: “a hobbit hole out in the countryside, and as little as possible.”

From Slate May 28, 2026

Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

Since fourth grade, she’d kept a running list of them and liked to reread it to see if she could get the stories to go further in her head.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

Here, Henry discusses her writing process, an author she rereads every year and the meaning behind the Taylor Swift needle-drop in “People We Meet on Vacation.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

Even on rereads, which I try to do every year, I find my heart racing and my palms sweating within a hundred pages.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2025

Rogers rereads her favorite author, Nora Roberts, and catches television shows here and there — “NCIS” and “JAG.”

From Seattle Times Sep. 10, 2021

Up in his room, he rereads old, unpublished diaries.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2020

She has us close our eyes while she rereads the description of the hot dog slathered in toppings and wrapped up with crunchy french fries.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

It simply means getting your bearings before you turn on the heat: chopping vegetables and herbs, measuring ingredients, rereading the recipe once more with a clear head.

From Salon Dec. 20, 2025

Rowling series for themselves—often rereading, committing passages to memory and challenging one another to answer esoteric trivia questions.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

In a tribute to the writer on his 90th birthday last year, MV Shreyams Kumar, the managing director of Mathrubhumi, wrote that Nair was always reading and rereading books.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2024

I’ve been rereading some golden oldies most recently: “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “The Three Pillars of Zen” and I’m making my way through “The Complete Sherlock Holmes.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2024

I figured rereading his old e-mails might make me feel something more.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon




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