refastened

verb

past tense of refasten
as in reattached

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  1. rejoined
  2. combined
  3. connected
  4. coupled
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  • Morgan Rogers has signed for Chelsea, Lucas Digne rejoined Paris Saint-Germain, Youri Tielemans left for Manchester United, while Ezri Konsa is on the verge of joining Arsenal.
    — David Ornstein, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • His father, former Benet coach Sean Wesley, has rejoined the program as an assistant.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of rejoined
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  • Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela have combined to add more than 1 million barrels per day of extra production.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Amihere was a perfect 7 of 7 from the field, Janelle Salaun and Tip Hayes scored 23 combined and the Valkyries bench accounted for 51 points.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of combined
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  • While earthquakes are not connected to climate change, the way many cities in earthquake-prone California have prepared for a potential Big One is as an example of what’s possible.
    — Peter Prengaman, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
  • While Betty Jo was staying at the lake house, a local attorney contacted her about a scale model of an old Hi-Power Service Station that was connected to her family.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of connected
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  • When such plasma is strongly coupled, the dust grains can’t fly past each other instead behave like elastic rubber.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Keep the model layer, retrieval layer, semantic layer and integration layer loosely coupled wherever possible.
    — Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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