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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rediscover.

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Examples

  • They would ensure the development of homegrown “human capital”—a term rediscovered in the 1950s—and perhaps that would turn out to be their most important role of all.

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • homegrown “human capital”—a term rediscovered in the 1950s—and perhaps that would turn out to be their most important role of all.

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • What they have rediscovered is the 6.5 with a lighter bullet like the 129 grain at lower velocity in a smaller case is close or flatter shooting than a larger caliber magnum at long range.

    7mm Rem Magnum receives bum rap! 2010

  • What they have rediscovered is the 6.5 with a lighter bullet like the 129 grain at lower velocity in a smaller case is close or flatter shooting than a larger caliber magnum at long range.

    7mm Rem Magnum receives bum rap! 2010

  • Night-Cycle: The Moon has its glory and the spiritual world (in all its aspects) grows; wealth decreases (when a man is rich he believes he is god; and when he is poor he searches for God); civilization shrinks and Nature is 'rediscovered' -- 'going back to nature' -- metaphysics dominates, and group desire and destiny replace the quest of the (Sun Hero) the Individual.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Downloading audio books, if you're as technically inept as I am, is a mission, but if it's the only way to access the book that has been described as a rediscovered masterpiece, it has to be worth the effort.

    Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – review Sue Arnold 2010

  • I was sufficiently intrigued by the New York Times' recent front-page treatment of the Metropolitan Museum's second recently "rediscovered" Velázquez to rush right over to see it the very next day.

    Lee Rosenbaum: Met's Rediscovered Velázquez: "Philip IV" Falls Flat Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • I was sufficiently intrigued by the New York Times' recent front-page treatment of the Metropolitan Museum's second recently "rediscovered" Velázquez to rush right over to see it the very next day.

    Lee Rosenbaum: Met's Rediscovered Velázquez: "Philip IV" Falls Flat Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • In the past decade, it seems as though the international art world has "rediscovered" John (and the art market finally stumbled upon him).

    RETROSPECTIVE: Baldessari's Beauty Comes Home 2010

  • So could we say that the neural net program "rediscovered" Sturgeon's Law ( "90 percent of everything is garbage"), then erred by figuring that the other 10 percent didn't matter?

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

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