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  • verb transitive To screen again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ screen

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Examples

  • Police say 28-year-old Haisong Jiang dunked under a security rope at Newark Airport early this week and that forced officials to shut down the terminal and rescreen thousands of passengers.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010 2010

  • Police say 28-year-old Haisong Jiang ducked under a security rope at Newark Airport earlier this week that forced officials to shut down the terminal and rescreen thousands of passengers.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010 2010

  • That forced officials to shut down the terminal and rescreen thousands of passengers.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010 2010

  • That incident, though, prompted authorities to shut down a terminal for hours and rescreen all the passengers there.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010 2010

  • They're down at the gate areas, shops, whatever else might be past the security gate area and bringing them back to the other side of security so they can rescreen them.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010 2010

  • PHILLIPS: Right after the man walked the wrong way through a security passageway, officials had to shut down one terminal for hours and then rescreen thousands of passengers, and they never found the guy.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010 2010

  • The incident forced authorities to shut down a terminal for hours, and rescreen thousands of passengers.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010 2010

  • And what they have done in an abundance of caution is they have moved everyone who has already gone through security, they're down at their gates, all that business, and they're moving everyone back out to the main area where the ticket counters are that kind of thing until they can rescreen them.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010 2010

  • Still whining and a billion overbudgeted Pit, along with demands for another 400 million to rescreen all Pit debris because some "sacred artifacts and bone bits needed for "victim closure might have been overlooked.

    "We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining." Ann Althouse 2008

  • We then repeat this fractionation process on these 10 compounds, rescreen them and find the active one, and then identify what that compound is.

    Odette Yustman in GQ Magazine Dennis 2007

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