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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of renew.

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Examples

  • It decreases the amount of sebum (oil) that is released by the sebaceous (oil) glands, and it increases that rate at which the skin renews itself.

    Untitled No. 20 2005

  • It decreases the amount of sebum (oil) that is released by the sebaceous (oil) glands, and it increases that rate at which the skin renews itself.

    Untitled No. 21 2005

  • The call renews Suzuki's efforts at last year's release of its Alto sub-light car.

    Car Advice | News | Reviews 2010

  • Bourne Ultimatum "(Bantam, $7.99), by Robert Ludlum:" A master assassin renews his struggle against an international terrorist. "

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear: so bitter -- death is hardly more severe.

    John Lundberg: Can Poetry Really Be Translated? 2008

  • Egg recall renews questions on battling salmonella

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

  • Egg recall renews questions on battling salmonella

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

  • When I came to him, the old man embraced me with tears, and shortly afterward looked up to heaven and said: "I thank thee, sovereign Sun, [Footnote: The Numidians worshipped the heavenly bodies.] and all of you lesser lights of heaven, that before I pass away from this life I behold in my kingdom and beneath this roof Publius Cornelius Scipio, whose very name renews my strength, so utterly inseparable from my thought is the memory of that best and most invincible of men who first bore it."

    De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • So I guess it kind of renews my faith in the way our system works and how people, you know, we have such good rights and we have such opportunities here.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2000 2000

  • I know that’s possible because God’s Word renews and redirects my mind so that I increasingly think as He does.

    The Busy Mom’s Guide to Bible Study Lisa Whelchel 2007

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