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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of recollapse.

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Examples

  • They then recollapsed into another generation of stars and planets and on some of those planets the oxygen which was created in those first generation stars could fuse with hydrogen to form water on the surface.

    a creation story Bill Kerr 2008

  • It would be much more “natural,” in other words, to live in either a cold and empty universe, or one that recollapsed in a jiffy.

    After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics Sean 2006

  • If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in 100 thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in 100 thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • The cavernous mouth collapsed and recollapsed in her version of a salacious sort of smile.

    the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984

  • The cavernous mouth collapsed and recollapsed in her version of a salacious sort of smile.

    The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984

  • Our work did not address the most serious fine-tuning problem in theoretical physics: the smallness of the "cosmological constant," thanks to which our universe neither recollapsed into nothingness a fraction of a second after the big bang, nor was ripped part by an exponentially accelerating expansion.

    Scientific American 2009

  • Our work did not address the most serious fine-tuning problem in theoretical physics: the smallness of the "cosmological constant," thanks to which our universe neither recollapsed into nothingness a fraction of a second after the big bang, nor was ripped part by an exponentially accelerating expansion.

    Scientific American 2009

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