rearresting

present participle of rearrest

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rearresting
Verb
  • Videos circulating on social media showed dozens of students in school uniform running in panic across the school's basketball court, some covering their ears with their hands, apparently to protect themselves from the loud blasts.
    NPR, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Then a gunshot appeared to ring out, sending spectators running in the opposite direction.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Arpaio became well known for his harsh treatment of immigrants and jail inmates, confining them in tents without air conditioning in Arizona’s torrid climate.
    Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Miškinis and writer Eglė Vertelytė (who adapts Rimantas Kmita’s semi-autobiographical novel) masterfully dodge genre tropes, avoiding confining their characters to simplistic labels and keeping the focus of their arcs self-motivated.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Landman's been a gusher for Paramount+, pulling in upwards of 35 million global streaming views for the streamer since its 2024 debut.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The show became a breakout hit in China, pulling in nearly a quarter-billion views on its first day.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But a federal lawsuit argues authorities are regularly jailing and deporting immigrants who are survivors of human trafficking, domestic abuse and other crimes.
    Julia Marnin, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The state can fairly easily police the requirement that Max be installed on new phones by threatening phone companies that don’t comply or even jailing their executives.
    Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s a whole history, actually, of how the Pentagon responded to the epidemic within its ranks, first by imprisoning infected men.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The United States began seizing church property and imprisoning polygamist leaders, coercing church president Wilford Woodruff to end official support for polygamy in 1890.
    Konden Smith Hansen, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 2026 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid is best-suited for drivers who want to regularly save money on gas and experience some of the benefits of electric vehicle ownership without committing to a fully-electric vehicle.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Petrostates and oil companies are increasingly emboldened to push back against any language blaming fossil fuels for climate change or committing to phasing them out.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Video shows one agent restraining the man, then dragging him around as another agent helps pin him to the ground.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Taiwan, too, should keep enhancing its civil and military defenses while restraining its assertions of sovereignty in cross-strait affairs.
    STEPHEN WERTHEIM, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The four-day operation focused on identifying and arresting people suspected of using online platforms to prey on children.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Turner spoke with an arresting conviction, locating Canada’s fate in geography, history, and its defining quest to defy manifest destiny and political gravity.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Rearresting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rearresting. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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