as in repeat
the act of saying or doing over again
his second marriage turned out to be a reprise of the first one: equally disastrous, simply shorter
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as in to summarize
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)
the prosecutor's closing statement effectively reprised the case against the defendant
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Recent Examples of reprise
Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
With the wind off Tempe Town Lake giving reprise from the warm spring sunshine everyone is casually walking around taking in the sights or lounging in the grass playing cards or chatting while waiting for the first acts of the day to begin.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
Expected out next year, the adventure is directed by Andy Serkis, who also reprises his Gollum character and brings back Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The show saw Goodman and Crystal reprise their roles, and also introduced Ben Feldman as a new character, Tylor Tuskmon.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
With the wind off Tempe Town Lake giving reprise from the warm spring sunshine everyone is casually walking around taking in the sights or lounging in the grass playing cards or chatting while waiting for the first acts of the day to begin.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis will reprise their roles in season two, which is set more than a decade after the events of the first season.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
Expected out next year, the adventure is directed by Andy Serkis, who also reprises his Gollum character and brings back Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reprise
Noun
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The gallery had sold six of the eight paintings on view by the day before Thursday’s VIP preview, at prices from $6,000 to $18,500, to both European and American buyers, some repeat clients.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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But hope runs eternal among box office pundits, with many counting on a repeat of summer 2023 and the Barbenheimer phenomenon.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Some early testers have used Skills to quickly enter prompts to calculate protein macros in a recipe, generate side-by-side comparisons across multiple tabs while shopping, and summarize lengthy documents, Google adds.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
15 Apr. 2026
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Instead of asking students to define terms or summarize a concept when Wikipedia is sitting right there, the advice was to give them higher-level tasks—to evaluate different solutions to a problem or reflect on how that concept has come up in their own lives.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The leaders who struggle most in this transition keep trying to replicate the intimacy of a small circle at global scale.—
Samuel Mueller,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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The events of Steve James’s film—two young athletes attempt to realize their dream of playing professional sports—have been replicated in countless films, books, and TV shows.—
Stephanie Bai,
The Atlantic,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Trump has benefited from a public worn down by repetition.—
Stephanie A,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
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Peter and his collaborators hammered on this idea that whites faced a genocide through immigration with persuasive repetition.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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How those two stars outline a dog is anybody’s guess.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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In the 1960s, Ohio’s governor, James Rhodes, outlined his vision of establishing a college within 30 miles of every resident and set about building regional campuses of large public universities across the state.—
Jeffrey Selingo,
The Atlantic,
12 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The couple has since renewed their vows at home.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
13 Apr. 2026
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The series was just renewed for a second season.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Stammen won his second replay review in two tries.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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This replays, of course, the buildup to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Reprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reprise. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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