rearresting

verb

present participle of rearrest
as in locking (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rearresting
  1. running in
  2. confining
  3. pulling in
  4. jailing
  5. imprisoning
  6. committing
  7. incarcerating
  8. restraining
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  • That pitch has already landed early customers like workspace platform Notion and AI customer‑service startup Decagon, where Aiden is running in production.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Vantrack plans to reveal the production Lightcamp van in September and will show it at the Netherlands' big Camper Trade Fair in Utrecht, running in late September/early October.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
Definition of running in
Verb
  • Use a summer-friendly baby carrier The combination of your body heat and the carrier’s confining space can make an infant hot and bothered within a matter of minutes.
    — Nancy Mattia, Parents, 8 July 2026
  • Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
Definition of confining
Verb
  • Joy Behar shocked The View Wednesday morning upon pulling in married interview guest Anson Mount for a long kiss on the lips live on the air.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
  • Some Democratic candidates, however, are pulling in major money.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 22 July 2026
Definition of pulling in
Verb
  • Critics say the 12-year rule of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has marked a crackdown on civil society and jailing of political opponents.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 July 2026
  • Also contentious was last year’s jailing of former Trade Minister Thomas Lembong over sugar import permits a decade ago despite no evidence of personal financial gain.
    — Chandra Asmara, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Definition of jailing
Verb
  • The turn of events prompt the narrator to re-examine his life as a gay Latine son of immigrants whose hometown is now imprisoning people like him.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
  • Trump, in one of his Truth Social posts, cited laws against defacing monuments as grounds for imprisoning anyone harming the pool.
    — Nathan Ellgren, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026
Definition of imprisoning
Verb
  • Adding Griezmann to the same lineup creates a counterattacking threat that could make opponents more cautious about committing forward, which would mean fewer runners for the back line to deal with.
    — Scott Turick, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2026
  • In 2022, that person was charged with committing a hate crime against his neighbors in Bellingham, Washington.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of committing
Verb
  • Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
Definition of incarcerating
Verb
  • Videos and images from the scene showed a fire with a plume of smoke and bright orange flames near a building entrance, as well as law enforcement officers restraining the suspect.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
  • Videos and photos from the scene showed a fire with a plume of smoke on the sidewalk outside the building, as well as officers restraining a person and taking them away.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of restraining
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