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- noun Plural form of
reecho .
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Examples
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Up and down the gorge the sound of the rain echoes and reechoes and the wind slips into caves and comes spiraling out again.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Up and down the gorge the sound of the rain echoes and reechoes and the wind slips into caves and comes spiraling out again.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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This fact reechoes to what Nielsen, as reported by BBC, had said that people would be more and more dependent on search engines in the future.
What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 2008
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The hillside shudders, and a dull huge clap echoes off the rocks and the surrounding higher peaks, echoes, and reechoes, like a chain of images trapped in mirrors facing each other, getting fainter and fainter, and stretching farther and farther away.
Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996
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The choir reechoes it each time, singing it in _contrapunto_, and then chants the verse
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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And when, in the course of time, these souls come into being, with unfailing regularity, at every act, conscience, like a spiritual phonograph, gives back His accents and reechoes: "it is lawful," or "it is not lawful."
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Shame, say I; and I am certain every one of your hearts, Gentlemen of the Jury, reechoes my indignant feeling!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 Various
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The Northern editor of any literary magazine who has had any experience in by-gone days with the manuscripts of the chivalry, will shrug his shoulders with a smile as he recalls the reams of reechoes of Northern writers, and not unfrequently of mere 'sensation' third-rate writers at that, which he was wont to receive from Dixie.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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His refusal to take part in the family's prayers for her seems to have stimulated that remorse of conscience, that "agenbite of inwit" which reechoes through Ulysses.
James Joyce 1946
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It has been pointed out that in records such as these the Old Testament "veritably reechoes with imperatives,"
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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