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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reassume.

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Examples

  • In the opening pages Clay or Mr. Ellis reassumes his fictional report almost with a shrug, as if picking up a just-dropped conversation, even though 25 years have passed.

    Zero Progress 2010

  • Lessig admits things haven't turned out to quite as miserably as he predicted they would, yet he quickly reassumes his skunk-at-the-cyber-libertarian-garden-party posture by noting, I concede that some of the predictions made there have not come to pass -

    The Walled Garden That Never Was, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • After the performance, after the crowd files out and the actor reassumes his birth persona and returns to the less lofty orbits of Earth.

    Of Men, Presidents and Jackasses 2007

  • Moreover, is not the fact that being somehow reassumes and takes on all the functions of the subject the index of this reversal?

    Archive 2007-01-01 enowning 2007

  • Rose smiles, rises from the table, and reassumes his exclusive seat on the stool behind the ivory bar.

    The Pianist 2007

  • This year, we want to ensure that prevention reassumes its rightful position in the response to HIV and AIDS as we observe the year of accelerated HIV prevention.

    ANC Today 2006

  • This year, we want to ensure that prevention reassumes its rightful position in the response to HIV and AIDS as we observe the year of accelerated HIV prevention.

    ANC Today 2006

  • O'BRIEN: In Thailand, the grim search reassumes for the bodies of tsunami victims.

    CNN Transcript May 20, 2005 2005

  • And in California, jury selection reassumes in just a few hours in the Michael Jackson child molestation case.

    CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2005 2005

  • O'BRIEN: When court reassumes this morning in Michael Jackson's molestation trial, the prosecution's final witness will be on the stand.

    CNN Transcript May 4, 2005 2005

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