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Recent Examples of repass
Norris struggled to repass Leclerc for second, after the Ferrari had muscled by with the extra grip afforded by his soft tires at the start, with Leclerc’s stout defending then hindering their chase of Verstappen.
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Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
The Senate, which passed congressional and legislative district plans a week ago along party lines, met relatively briefly to repass the congressional plan after it was amended by Democrats in an attempt to secure some Republican support.
—oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
The Senate, which passed congressional and legislative district plans a week ago along party lines, met relatively briefly to repass the congressional plan after it was amended by Democrats in an attempt to secure some Republican support.
—oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repass
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However, smaller trucking companies do not always have the ability to pass those costs on to customers without risking losing business.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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City Council passed an ordinance in 2019 banning new mini-storage facilities and auto service shops on a section of Stockton Boulevard.—
ANNIKA MERRILEES,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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No waiver is in place for the 2026-27 academic year, however, so a final year of college basketball for Buchanan will hinge on whether something similar will be enacted again for non-NCAA transfers.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Apr. 2026
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In setting new standards for the film-and-television industry, while also raising wages and benefits, this agreement was precisely the sort of thing Dube is advocating for other sectors to adopt, even though it was enacted through collective bargaining rather than by government action.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Considering the quantity of hydrocarbons that are naturally entering Gulf of Mexico waters, what exactly constitutes an environmental disaster?—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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It’s considered a high bar to clear, and causing excessive suffering to civilians can constitute a war crime.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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The bill, which has passed the state Assembly, will permit the government to discriminate in all aspects of K-12 education and some aspects of colleges and universities, except for admissions and enrollment.—
Alison Somin,
Oc Register,
10 Apr. 2026
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Any additional charges must be authorized by your original contract or permitted under applicable law.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Once the mattress was placed on the new queen bed frame, that first lay down was glorious.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2026
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Peterka did not appear to make contact with Shesterkin, who lay down in the net in pain while he was attended to by a trainer and then helped off the ice.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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These Chicago scientists and engineers played a critical role in the Manhattan Project, helping develop the atomic bombs that were used to bring about the unfathomable destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.—
Daniel Holz,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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This legislation would bring about responsible policy based on real-world data to right-size insurance requirements.—
Nick Caloway,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Ever since Sydney had brought Victor back from the dead, his power had been glitching, his body reenacting the same electrical surge that had stopped his heart back at Lockland, fifteen years before.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Apr. 2026
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That statute was first enacted through the Nationality Act in 1940 and then reenacted in the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1952.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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This makes prediction markets the most useful and precise tool for eradicating exposing insider trading that has ever existed—a tool Congress should rely on heavily, not legislate out of existence.—
Nic Puckrin,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Critiques of the bill Cohen added that under international law, Israel’s parliament should not be legislating in the West Bank, which is not sovereign Israeli territory.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Repass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repass. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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