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  • verb Present participle of resume.

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Examples

  • Barr and Donovan declined to comment on whether Bank of America and Ally Financial acted properly in resuming foreclosures.

    Major title insurer insists lenders vouch for foreclosure paperwork Zachary A. Goldfarb 2010

  • I think our weakness, unfortunately, invited this aggression, but this aggression is a great opportunity to begin resuming the offensive against the terrorist groups.

    Think Progress » Williams Confronts Kristol: ‘You Just Want War, War, War, And You Want Us In More War’ 2006

  • Seeing large fish being gutted, and noticing smaller fish inside their bellies, he felt entitled to convince himself that there was nothing offensive in resuming his fish diet.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • Seeing large fish being gutted, and noticing smaller fish inside their bellies, he felt entitled to convince himself that there was nothing offensive in resuming his fish diet.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • Seeing large fish being gutted, and noticing smaller fish inside their bellies, he felt entitled to convince himself that there was nothing offensive in resuming his fish diet.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • One thing that strikes me is how Boreanaz claims he has no interest in resuming the character of Angel now that the series is over.

    108446168469931884 « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • One thing that strikes me is how Boreanaz claims he has no interest in resuming the character of Angel now that the series is over.

    Michael in Nashville 2004

  • The tale was soon told, and Pieter de Witt lost not a moment in resuming his clothes.

    Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons 1919

  • Marah Rocke was a very hard-working woman, sewing all day long and knitting through the twilight, and then again resuming her needle by candle-light and sewing until midnight – and yet Marah Rocke made but a poor and precarious living for herself and son.

    The Hidden Hand 1888

  • Various causes led to a long delay in resuming it.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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