Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To examine again or anew; review.
- transitive verb Chiefly British To question (a witness) in redirect examination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To examine anew; subject to another examination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To examine anew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
re-examine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb look at again; examine again
- verb question after cross-examination by opposing counsel
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Examples
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If an order to reexamine is to be issued, the decision is prepared and signed by the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Patent Policy and Projects, and the patent file is forwarded to the Reexamination Preprocessing staff for preparation of the reexamination file and Official Gazette notice.
Archive 2006-01-01 Peter Zura 2006
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On Friday, Mr. Harder said that after the Games, the FIL would "reexamine" information gathered about the accident and determine how to best move forward.
Luge Track Had Earlier Fixes Aimed at Safety David Crawford 2010
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You would think at this point they would stop giving him huge movies and give him time to "reexamine" himself as you put it.
Question of the Day: Why Are There So Few Female Filmmakers? | /Film 2010
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On Friday, Mr. Harder said that after the Games, the FIL would "reexamine" information gathered about the accident and determine how to best move forward.
Luge Track Had Earlier Fixes Aimed at Safety David Crawford 2010
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Senator Kerry adresses McCain's reversal on drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), from opposing it in the Senate in 2004 and 2005 to recent statements that he would "reexamine" the issue.
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Of course the idea that they might lean on a bunch of G-10's at the BEA to "reexamine" their figures is out of the question!
The Big Picture 2008
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UPDATE: Newt Gingrich wants us to "reexamine" free speech under the theory it will prevent terrorism.
Is that all you blighters can do? Ellen Beth Gill 2006
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UPDATE: Newt Gingrich wants us to "reexamine" free speech under the theory it will prevent terrorism.
Archive 2006-11-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006
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We are not there yet, we hope not to get there maybe we will be better able to answer that question that time, but right now, I think we are finding right balance and I would say that part of the great opportunity at this time for us has been as a company to kind of reexamine and bring our self back to those things, which I think really make us to create in the first place, which is the - and set us apart in the marketplace, which is the individual customer service and the store experience and I think we are refocusing on those things and in a sort of ironic way, using this time to find that way back to really reemphasizing, taking care of the individual customer, taking the individual team member and delivering a better store experience
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We are not there yet, we hope not to get there maybe we will be better able to answer that question that time, but right now, I think we are finding right balance and I would say that part of the great opportunity at this time for us has been as a company to kind of reexamine and bring our self back to those things, which I think really make us to create in the first place, which is the - and set us apart in the marketplace, which is the individual customer service and the store experience and I think we are refocusing on those things and in a sort of ironic way, using this time to find that way back to really reemphasizing, taking care of the individual customer, taking the individual team member and delivering a better store experience
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