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rerun

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






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She told me about the movie, “Teen Witch,” which used to rerun on the Disney Channel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

A Mediterranean summer on fire has become a genre now, a seasonal rerun we thumb past on the way to something else.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

The security measures follow a cheating scandal that forced a rerun of a test taken by two million prospective medical students.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Mitie is asking the High Court to "set aside" the decision and award the contract to Mitie, or rerun the tendering process, or order the government to pay damages.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

One cannot interrupt galaxy formation, start and stop hurricanes and ice ages, experimentally exterminate grizzly bears in a few national parks, or rerun the course of dinosaur evolution.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“Seinfeld” went off the air 28 years ago, but its cultural relevance has endured as reruns draw new generations of fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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

Arletta Paisley’s summer season premiere was only a few days away, and H & H was showing a heavy rotation of reruns to build excitement about the new show.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

PBS, which had just started broadcasting in 1970, aired them every day, then reran them every night.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 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

“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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