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rerun

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






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“How to Win a Trade War” shows us that, even in the age of Trump, many of today’s trade tensions are a historical rerun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

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

Double-digit earnings growth and significant hedging by traders could mean a rerun of the rebound seen after last year’s Tariff Tantrum.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

However, he boycotted the rerun, demanding electoral reforms.

From BBC Oct. 15, 2025

They try to yell at him, but you can tell that everyone’s going through the motions, and when Justin storms off to his room, it’s just the latest rerun of an old show.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

In its earliest days, TBS aired old movies and comedy reruns, and was also the home of “Captain Planet and the Planeteers,” Turner’s effort to blend his passion for ecological conservation with educational programming.

From Salon May 8, 2026

But after every major network passed, he re-approached CBS, where then-CEO and President Les Moonves was game to try original programming during summertime when reruns caused dwindling viewership.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 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

The Next Day After a night of channel surfing and back-to-back reruns of Star Trek, the morning sun rushes in courtesy of the nurse raising the blinds.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

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

Hoping to clarify the dates for sites containing Châtelperronian and proto-Aurignacian artifacts, Djakovic and colleagues reran the radiocarbon analyses performed by other teams representing 17 sites across France and northern Spain.

From Science Magazine Oct. 13, 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

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

And Marple was certainly an inspiration for Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher in the long-running “Murder, She Wrote,” which may currently be found rerunning on HMM and via Amazon Freevee/Prime Video.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2022

“There would be a major boycott of TV Land or any network that wanted to start rerunning ‘Cosby,’” he said.

From New York Times Jul. 1, 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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