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In an era with no shame, how soon is too soon to reenter polite society after a public fall from grace? — Horacio Silva, Town & Country, "What to Do When You Find Yourself at Dinner With a Social Pariah," 15 May 2019 The former drummer of the grunge band Nirvana talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about reentering music following the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. — CBS News, "This week on "Sunday Morning" (July 8)," 6 July 2018 Just over a half -hour later, Dragon reentered Earth’s atmosphere, aero-braking to slow down, then popped two drogue parachutes. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "How It Works: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashdown and Recovery," 8 Mar. 2019 Republicans have pitched the change as a commonsense way to shift tservices to the neediest families while giving adults who can more incentive to reenter the workforce. — Washington Post, "The Health 202: Medicare is the name in Democrats' health-care game," 19 Apr. 2018 The Guardian now reports that the co-pilot did indeed activate a five-minute override that prevented the captain, who'd left the cockpit, from punching in a numerical code to reenter. — Thomas Houston, Popular Mechanics, "Germanwings Co-pilot Accelerated Plane Before Crash," 24 Mar. 2015 Space station burns up on reentry: China's Tiangong-1 space station reentered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, China's space authority said. — Washington Post, "World Digest: April 1, 2018," 1 Apr. 2018 The academy prepares youngsters to reenter the traditional system, and Jaylyn was newly enrolled at Ballou. — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, "A dispute at school, a shooting later and one D.C. teen accused of killing another," 31 May 2018 Officials were planning to issue credentials for residents and business owners who need to reenter downtown while keeping out members of the public and limiting the number of people who would be in or around potentially dangerous structures. — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, "Massive flooding in Maryland leaves man missing and ruins businesses," 29 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'reenter.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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