reimposes

verb

present tense third-person singular of reimpose
as in relays

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  1. relays
  2. wreaks
  3. inflicts
  4. compels
  5. forces
Verb
  • As the green-dot player, Rodriguez receives the defensive play call from Hafley and relays it to teammates.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Gibson shared an email from Marshall Mayor Craig Thompson that relays that Peters issued the directive.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of relays
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  • The havoc a hacker wreaks using their attack could be catastrophic.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 Aug. 2026
  • At that level, air density has dropped by close to 40 percent, which wreaks havoc on an internal combustion engine, which needs oxygen to operate efficiently.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 June 2026
Definition of wreaks
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  • The betrayal Murray inflicts on Tremblay’s Kaczynski is compelling, even as the film presses it into service as an explanation for every horror that followed.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The more suffering Russia inflicts on Ukrainian civilians, the more Europe invests in Ukraine’s defense and its own.
    — MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of inflicts
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  • However, the necessity of operating without a financial safety net compels one to internalize these lessons.
    — Shreyans Lodha, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And most of them did not choose the economic arrangement that compels them to burn that carbon, that splits labor and leisure in this way, that organizes work and pleasure around certain kinds of mobility.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of compels
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  • The companies and economies that endure will be the ones that can balance growth, resilience and sustainability—and change before outside pressure forces them to.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The process forces light atomic nuclei together at extremely high temperatures and under intense pressure.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of forces
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“Reimposes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reimposes. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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