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

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Examples

  • I just listened to a thing on NPR about Lazy Eyes and how the brain reprograms itself to see out of just one eye so it isn’t confused by double vision.

    pinky and the brain | clusterflock 2009

  • Thus, a single miRNA essentially "reprograms" the entire cell by influencing entire networks of genes.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Joseph Krueger 2010

  • Veldhoen M, Uyttenhove C, van Snick J, Helmby H, Westendorf A, et al. (2008) Transforming growth factor-beta 'reprograms' the differentiation of T helper 2 cells and promotes an interleukin 9-producing subset.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Prabhakar Putheti et al. 2010

  • DENVER—It's generally not an occasion for mourning when a city reprograms its traffic signals.

    No More Dancing in Denver's Streets Stephanie Simon 2011

  • It's the intensity of repetition that reprograms the brain, Ashley says.

    Experts say Gabrielle Giffords needs year to show progress 2011

  • The University of Pennsylvania treatment takes a patient's so-called T-cells, crucial sentinels of the immune system, and uses a virus to insert a gene that reprograms the cell into a hybrid that includes properties of T-cells and another immune-system cell called a B-cell.

    Gene Treatment Offers Hope in Leukemia Cases Ron Winslow 2011

  • It reprograms my DVR so that all my episodes of that gritty prison drama "Oz" are replaced with interviews with the cast of "Twilight."

    I blame the SuperMoon 2011

  • This reprograms them into an embryo-like state and creates a source of master cells without the problem of immune rejection or ethical controversy.

    Cloning Offers Stem-Cell Hope Gautam Naik 2011

  • Indeed, neurobiological studies show that thirty days of repeating new behavior reprograms your brain by reversing neural pathways.

    Gabrielle Bernstein: Add More ~ing to Your Life 2010

  • Indeed, neurobiological studies show that thirty days of repeating new behavior reprograms your brain by reversing neural pathways.

    Gabrielle Bernstein: Reinvent And Heal Yourself In 2010 2010

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