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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of readmit.

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Examples

  • The bills divided the South except for Tennessee, which was readmitted into the Union only because it had agreed to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment into five military districts and gave supreme authority over those districts to officers of the United States Army.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Congress mandated that a state could be readmitted into the Union only if its constitution included provisions for black suffrage and if its legislature ratified not only the Fourteenth Amendment but also a new Fifteenth Amendment, which made illegal the denial of suffrage to any citizen on account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • He was disbarred for two years in 1969, then apparently readmitted at some point, then disbarred in 1979.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps 2010

  • Upon discharge, she says, her incision was painful and oozing; she was readmitted almost immediately with a 104-degree fever.

    War on hospital infections drags on 2011

  • (The epidural failed, might be something to do with my metabolism, or lack therof, of certain anesthetics and opiates …) And how my daughter was a-ok but I was readmitted to the hospital five days later with water in my lungs and around my heart.

    A Good Birth | Her Bad Mother 2010

  • "My husband Neal and I had him home for just ten days before he needed to be readmitted for aspiration pneumonia," says Carolyn.

    Diaphragmatic eventration 2010

  • In 2009-10, 14% of people with Parkinson's, MS and MND who were discharged from hospital after an overnight stay were readmitted within 28 days as an emergency.

    NHS warned of 'neurology timebomb' 2012

  • "Although I am deeply saddened that I will not be readmitted to West Point, I understand and respect the decision," said the 21-year-old from Findlay, Ohio.

    Lesbian ex-cadet giving up West Point fight 2011

  • If caught making the same or even lesser “mistakes,” a Harvard student would have had to withdraw from school immediately, stay away from campus for at least two additional semesters, and work satisfactorily at a full-time job for six months before being readmitted.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • "My husband Neal and I had him home for just ten days before he needed to be readmitted for aspiration pneumonia," says Carolyn.

    Diaphragmatic eventration 2010

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