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
Verb
  • National election night coverage from NBC News played on a big screen at the venue, and some early-arriving guests cheered when early results showed Democrats running in other states leading in their respective races.
    — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Some right-wing commentators online claimed the issue was a sign of fraud, but both the Republican and Democrat running in the district told voters not to be deterred.
    — Miles Parks, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of running in
Verb
  • Corporations have responded with caution, especially in regulated sectors like banking and healthcare, confining deployments to narrow pilots whose early returns are far more modest than AI enthusiasts advertise.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off.
    — Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of confining
Verb
  • Candidates spent the weekend crisscrossing their states and pulling in surrogates to make a final push for voters still on the fence.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The film even spawned a three-film franchise, with the entire trilogy eventually pulling in over one billion dollars in box office bucks.
    — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulling in
Verb
  • The government has been widely accused of stealing elections, jailing dissidents and stifling freedom of speech.
    — Clyburn Saint John, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Rodríguez's administration denies the country is jailing dissidents.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of jailing
Verb
  • Despite its lengthy history of imprisoning Americans on questionable charges, Russia has not faced the designation, which was applied to Iran in February and Afghanistan in March.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Many governments are doing this through surveillance, monitoring social media, doxxing, creating AI deepfakes and even forcibly repatriating critics in exile and imprisoning them.
    — Mary Lind, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of imprisoning
Verb
  • On the other hand, proponents might argue that reliably identifying individuals at risk of committing serious crimes could benefit society.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
  • In 2024, leaders from city and county government, law enforcement, education, business, arts, nonprofits and faith communities signed it, publicly committing to the dignity and safety of their neighbors.
    — Linda Chapin, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of committing
Verb
  • Demolishing universities, assaulting the press, violently resegregating the public sphere, ramming degenerative AI down our throats, incarcerating mere zine makers, the regime is systematically repealing the right to culture.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The goal is to reduce violence, get people proper resources, and avoid the cycle of incarcerating people dealing with poverty, addiction, and mental health.
    — Scott Maucione, NPR, 27 July 2026
Definition of incarcerating
Verb
  • Some food employees working with open food are wearing visors which are not effectively restraining their hair.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Raising retirement ages and restraining entitlement growth make the debt more manageable.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of restraining
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