Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A second or repeated attachment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
reattaching ; a second or subsequentattachment .
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Examples
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In Western faiths, spiritual practices aim less toward non-attachment than toward "reattachment" to someone or something outside ourselves.
John Backman: Can Religion Make Us More Civil? John Backman 2011
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In Western faiths, spiritual practices aim less toward non-attachment than toward "reattachment" to someone or something outside ourselves.
John Backman: Can Religion Make Us More Civil? John Backman 2011
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In Western faiths, spiritual practices aim less toward non-attachment than toward "reattachment" to someone or something outside ourselves.
John Backman: Can Religion Make Us More Civil? John Backman 2011
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In Western faiths, spiritual practices aim less toward non-attachment than toward "reattachment" to someone or something outside ourselves.
John Backman: Can Religion Make Us More Civil? John Backman 2011
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Virginia Tech left guard Greg Nosal earned tough-guy points on Saturday, postponing the reattachment of a torn-off tip of his left pinkie to keep playing.
Greg Nosal, Virginia Tech Left Guard, Loses FINGER Tip During Game The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Greg Nosal earned tough-guy points on Saturday, postponing the reattachment of a torn-off tip of his left pinkie to keep playing.
Austan Goolsbee, the missing pinky and 'Mad Men' feminism: This week's top news tweets Katie Rogers 2010
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I'll say this: That foot was hardly a candidate for reattachment, now, was it?
Hiccup Susan Rukeyser 2011
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There it would sit until the next morning when the great reattachment ceremony would take place.
The Shopping Diet Phillip Bloch 2010
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Translocation of a gene: the physical reattachment of a gene from one chromosome to another.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Translocation of a gene: the physical reattachment of a gene from one chromosome to another.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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