reimposing

Definition of reimposingnext
present participle of reimpose

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Verb
  • Earlier this week, Pakistan's foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, said his country was relaying messages between the United States and Iran in its efforts to promote peace between them.
    NPR Staff, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Moving forward As for the Top Hat Bar, Shaw said this isn’t the end of its story, relaying that plans for a new bar located elsewhere are in the works.
    Vanessa Carlson Bender, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Traffic through the strait has fallen by 90% since the start of the Iran war, sending global oil prices skyrocketing and inflicting alarming shortages on the Asian nations that get their oil from Persian Gulf countries via the strait.
    David McHugh, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The regime has proved more resilient and more capable of inflicting sustained damage on the region than the president expected.
    Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Heat did it by sitting in its zone defense for most of the night, slowing the 76ers and forcing them into 17 non-paint two-point shots.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The decision drew immediate fire from El-Sayed's primary opponents and national Democratic figures, forcing a rare public reckoning over how far the party should go to recapture young men who abandoned it in record numbers in 2024.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Playing as one of the two behind Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the 3-4-2-1 Farke has settled on, Stach’s got the defensive steel to bulk up the engine room out of possession, but the guile and stamina to roam forward, wreaking chaos in attack.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Back in Peshawar, a stone’s throw from the hospital wing, some of the weapons wreaking new havoc along Pakistan’s mineral belt were laid out for CNN to see.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Meyers is also accused of coercing the 15-year-old into recording the high school’s wrestling team, the complaint alleges.
    Brittany Kubicko, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Guevara and two colleagues, Mason and then-Detective Ernest Halvorson, orchestrated a frame-up by coercing one witness to identify Rios by beating him with a phone book and flashlight, and another by threatening to charge him with obstruction, according to the plaintiffs’ allegations.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The city agreed, reducing maximum e-bike speeds to 15 mph on city trails, prohibiting e-bikes on sidewalks and imposing penalties.
    Sarah Raza, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But Trump’s election proved that a sizable contingent of the population had no problem imposing their values on others—and even hoped that the government might do so for them.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The Justice Department initially said that its release, made in response to a law passed by Congress compelling the agency to disclose nearly all files related to Epstein, comprised more than 3 million pages.
    Elliott Ramos, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • City staff, however, expressed concerns about the request, compelling the recycling plant to instead propose a new shear in the same location as the current one and reducing the new shear's size.
    Jessie Christopher Smith, Oklahoman, 24 Feb. 2026
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“Reimposing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reimposing. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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