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- noun Being
adopted back into a family or group
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Examples
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Russia accord requires such notification "in a reasonable time" and Russia's consent for any readoption.
U.S., Kremlin Reach Deal to Monitor Adoptions Richard Boudreaux 2011
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Finally he announced that he would put himself up for readoption by his local party in order that they could decide if following this scandal they still wanted him to stand but he insisted he would fight to remain as the MP and candidate.
I attended Andrew MacKay's meeting and I think his position is now untenable Mark Reckons 2009
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Finally he announced that he would put himself up for readoption by his local party in order that they could decide if following this scandal they still wanted him to stand but he insisted he would fight to remain as the MP and candidate.
Archive 2009-05-01 Mark Reckons 2009
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There was a good article recently by Phyllis Schlafly on the readoption of "older" methods of math instruction - which parents and common-sense teachers had been pushing for all along, in favor of the trendier new methods pushed by the public education establishment.
Sound Politics: It's About Black Fathers, Not Better Hip-Hop 2006
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The beef I had with the VRA renewal was the assumption that the verbatim readoption of this forty year old tool was the best way to tackle the problems that the VRA in the abstract is supposed to deal with.
Let's take a closer look at Ron Paul. Ann Althouse 2007
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High Icelandic stand for the rejection of the cross and the readoption of the hammer as the symbol on the flag.
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He read the twelve Republican principles, and each utterance received its applause like the readoption of a popular creed.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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An Extraordinary Constituent Congress confirmed the readoption of the Constitution of 1824, making such slight changes as were deemed necessary.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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Yes, my fellow-man! reconstruction, readoption of man's God-like, blood-bought immortality!
National Rectitude the Only True Basis of National Prosperity: An Appeal to the Confederate States Joseph Clay 1863
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In what precise manner the seceding States shall return, whether by inherent right, or with some preliminary penance and ceremony of readoption, is of less consequence than what they shall be after their return.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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