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  • verb Simple past of retear.

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Examples

  • Through her own efforts of feeding, housing, mothering and using her contacts, Beth was able to nurse this bird back to health, retore its sight and return it to the wild.

    Q&A, Beth Fife, Pa Wildlife Conservation Officer 2008

  • He promised us all to retore honesty and integrity to the White House and has did just the opposite.

    Democrats launch 'McCainPedia' 2008

  • This campaign is helping to retore my faith in America.

    New Obama Ad In South Stars Bluegrass Legend Saying Obama Is "A Good Man" 2009

  • 'How to retore the status quo?' they say, scratching their heads.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • He tore the telegram and retore it into tiny pieces.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • "The Budget should help us gradually to bring back confidence, retore the inflows of capital, add again to liquidity and hopefully gradually reduce interest rates in the domestic economy," he told the National Assembly's finance committee.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Ms Furniss said the new body sought to unify nurses into a single representative body 'to retore their credibility'.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Klerk on the Zulu king's claims had made little progress, adding the Government had denied sovereignty to the Zulu nation and would not retore a sovereign KwaZulu kingdom.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • They said they would call on King Goodwill to recognise the important role they played in the affairs of the nation and "give whatever instructions are necessary to retore to amakhosis their traditional right to approach his majesty for a hearing on important issues".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • They said they would call on King Goodwill to recognise the important role they played in the affairs of the nation and "give whatever instructions are necessary to retore to amakhosis their traditional right to approach his majesty for a hearing on important issues".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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