as in to respond
to speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction when I asked my daughter if she wouldn't mind picking up dinner on her way home from soccer practice, she rejoined, "Only if you wouldn't mind me taking out the pickup later tonight!"

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Recent Examples of rejoin But in Friday’s season finale, Coop is able to not only acquit himself of murder and find the real culpable party, but is also given a chance to rejoin the professional ranks that had previously turned their backs on him. Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025 As of early April, only about 100 of the more than 8,700 individuals ousted chose to rejoin. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 28 May 2025 Win McNamee/Getty Images Just over two years ago, Syria quietly rejoined the Arab League. Zoltan Istvan, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025 After Kai's solo walk was completed, Watts rejoined her on the carpet and the duo posed together for pictures. Kayla Grant, People.com, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for rejoin
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  • Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom responded by suing the administration.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • Lawyers for OpenAI did not respond to The News’ requests for comment.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
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  • Neither his mother nor any of Bodden’s family or friends replied to a request for comment for this story.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025
  • Hammack should have replied to Smith that a central banker planning something as complicated as the cost of credit would be as foolhardy as a president planning Harvard’s class of 2029, multiplied by many millions.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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  • Those tasks can include labeling the contents of images, answering questions, or rating which of two chatbots’ answers are better, in order to teach AI systems to better comply with human preferences.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 12 June 2025
  • For those not in-the-know on all things Treehouse of Horror, monorails or that time George Harrison rubbed shoulders with Homer Simpson at a Grammys afterparty, author Alan Siegel's new book should answer a few questions.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 12 June 2025

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“Rejoin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rejoin. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.

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