restarts

verb

present tense third-person singular of restart
as in resumes
to begin again or return to after an interruption after being shut down for three years, the power plant will restart operations this week

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Recent Examples of restarts The real test will come if the district restarts the pilot and shows that the technology can support learning without putting student privacy at risk. — Jesse Watson, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Marc restarts his revenue counter at zero every January and re-earns the year from scratch. — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Instead, Rue restarts her Bible audiobook from the beginning and considers her pill bottle. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026 Eliminating them restarts the project clock. — Ben Link, The Conversation, 8 May 2026 The loan, promised to Kyiv months ago, has been long delayed because Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister Victor Orbán was blocking it, demanding Ukraine restarts the flow of Russian oil into Europe. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 This shuts off the engine at stoplights or when idling, and restarts it once the accelerator is pressed. — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026 The new dates fall a week after the men’s World Cup final on July 19 and three weeks into the second half of the 2026 National Women’s Soccer League season, which restarts after a summer pause on July 3. — Theo Lloyd-Hughes, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026 Hungary vowed to block the latest round of EU sanctions against Moscow unless Ukraine restarts Russian oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia, escalating a dispute just before the war’s four-year anniversary. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 22 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for restarts
  1. resumes
  2. continues
  3. reopens
Verb
  • After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumes Monday with more testimony about the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The latest version of the bill, which will be considered when the state legislature resumes its session next month, requires the state to list pesticides with PFAS in its public database.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of resumes
Verb
  • Making ends meet continues to be a struggle for many families, and now back-to-school shopping is straining even more families' budgets.
    — Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The company argues that improving awareness on the airport surface could deliver meaningful safety gains as flight activity continues to increase.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of continues
Verb
  • But also make time to visit the Chazen Museum of Art, which reopens in fall 2026 after a reinstallation project throughout its two buildings.
    — Samantha Lande, Midwest Living, 30 July 2026
  • But while the landmark ruling reopens the path to citizenship for thousands worldwide, attaining it may be a different story.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 29 July 2026
Definition of reopens

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