rerun

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verb

re·​run (ˌ)rē-ˈrən How to pronounce rerun (audio)
reran (ˌ)rē-ˈran How to pronounce rerun (audio) ; rerun; rerunning

transitive verb

: to run again or anew

rerun

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noun

re·​run ˈrē-ˌrən How to pronounce rerun (audio)
(ˌ)rē-ˈrən
: the act or action or an instance of rerunning : repetition
especially : a movie or television show that is rerun

Examples of rerun in a Sentence

Verb Last week's show is being rerun tomorrow night. They reran the race, but the result was the same. He reran the software on my computer. Noun She spent her vacation watching summer reruns.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
In the Great Lakes region, that led to a winter as mild as a Lawrence Welk rerun. Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024 The ballot measure that will go before residents in the November general election sets term limits at twelve consecutive years, allowing city council members or the mayor to rerun after a hiatus of 12 years. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024 When rerunning in 2012, Paul lost the nomination to Mitt Romney. Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024 For rerunning the violation, All Florida was given an $8,463 civil money penalty. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024 If the eyes are the window to the soul, our under eyes are an indication of last night's 12-hour Friends rerun marathon. Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 26 Jan. 2024 It is meant on the one hand to achieve a high level of realism and on the other to echo the romanticism of the pre-revisionist World War II films that producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman would have grown up watching rerun on television. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 And when Hill, Lim, and Weeden reran their experiment with immune-deficient mice, the effect of air pollution disappeared. Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 Flynn suggested in the aftermath of the 2020 election that Trump could seize voting machines and order the military in some states to help rerun the election. Gary Fields, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2023
Noun
Israel responded, beginning a cross-border exchange that has persisted every day since then, provoking worries of a rerun of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war. Alexander Smith, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2024 The Emmys couldn't even beat out a rerun of NCIS , which nabbed 4.9 million viewers on CBS. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2024 That such a show was received as funny and inoffensive is hard to imagine now, but in my childhood its reruns were continuous. Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024 The one that’s made the most headlines is the scheduling of early seasons of Yellowstone on Sunday nights, giving the Eye a top-20 hit with five-year-old cable reruns. Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023 This is a rerun of the scenario that played out in late September as the Writers Guild of America came to the end of its 148-day strike. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023 Yellowstone is currently airing reruns Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. EW.com, 22 Oct. 2023 But in later years, seen in reruns and on home video, it was hailed as a forgotten classic. Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024 Some of the nuggets dip into the previous decade: Ted and John have a taste for reruns of The A-Team, Matty is really into Rocky IV, and Ted dresses as an Ewok for Halloween, although people keep mistaking him for Lawrence of Arabia. Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1804, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1922, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of rerun was in 1804

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Cite this Entry

“Rerun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rerun. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

rerun

1 of 2 verb
re·​run (ˈ)rē-ˈrən How to pronounce rerun (audio)
reran; rerun; rerunning
: to run again or anew

rerun

2 of 2 noun
re·​run ˈrē-ˌrən How to pronounce rerun (audio)
(ˈ)rē-ˈrən
1
: the act or action or an instance of rerunning
2
: a television program or movie that is rerun

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