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  • verb Present participle of recompose.

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Examples

  • She stood up from her desk and tightened the tuck of her shirt with her thumbs, her shoulders flexing, her expression recomposing itself.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • She stood up from her desk and tightened the tuck of her shirt with her thumbs, her shoulders flexing, her expression recomposing itself.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • Wordsworth, with a kind of redundant reflexivity, were recomposing the straggling sounds of his earlier work into a sanctioned order, thus legitimating at once the soundness of its poetic principle and the principle of its poetic sound.

    The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

  • Usually it is done by pressing the shutter button halfway down and then recomposing the picture while still holding the button halfway down.

    10 tips on photographing children | Sync Blog 2009

  • The most important thing i realized when I got better resolution, is the enormus possibilities I get with recomposing my images by cropping tools and still get good quality.

    Kodak Versus Canon Or Do We Really Need A New Camera? « Fairegarden 2008

  • I'm recomposing myself with the beautiful French press coffee, and they seat six men and one woman at the big table at my elbow.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • It seems as though he is recomposing the piece as he goes along, so clear is his approach and rendition.

    Pure Gould! Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • As they go into fall and start concentrating on recomposing Congress, they've got Lamont an inexperienced politician who ran to the left, an irrelevant Republican, and Joe, their long-time senator.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • It seems as though he is recomposing the piece as he goes along, so clear is his approach and rendition.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

  • By displacing the centre of perspective if not of gravity in the face and recomposing its features to accord with the new character, they began building up a new sort of beauty at fifty as a man takes up a new profession late in life or as soil no longer good for the vine is used to produce beetroot.

    Time Regained 2003

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