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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reattract .
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Examples
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At Chrysler, customers were reattracted by new automotive designs: convertibles, minivans, and totally reshaped models of several passenger cars.
Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame Raymond E. Miles 1994
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And Ivan, deep as he was buried beneath his weight of despair, heard the sound, and reluctantly raised himself, at the same time grasping the letter anew, till the intruder's attention was reattracted by the rustle.
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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"She doesn't seem to care much," he reflected, relieved and stabbed in his humble vanity and reattracted to Nelly, all at once.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"She doesn't seem to care much," he reflected, relieved and stabbed in his humble vanity and reattracted to Nelly, all at once.
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But if while it is thus sustained in the air it chance to light on some other body, it straightway loses its electricity, and in consequence is reattracted by the tube, which, after having given it a new electricity, repels it a second time, which continues as long as the tube keeps its electricity.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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It will be observed from this that he was very close to discovering the discharge of the electrification of attracted bodies by contact with some other object, after which they are reattracted by the electric.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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Nor is it reattracted while it retains its electric quality.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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Businesses will say you don't have the professional people we require, so let's build someplace else where those people are, not in a place where they have to be reattracted.
unknown title 2009
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“She doesn’t seem to care much,” he reflected, relieved and stabbed in his humble vanity and reattracted to Nelly, all at once.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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