re-enter
Britishverb
Explanation
To re-enter is to come in again after going out, the way you might run back to your car, grab your shopping bags, and then re-enter the grocery store. To enter is to go in, from a root that means "between or among," and the prefix re- means "again." Whenever you exit a place, you can choose to re-enter it later (unless you're at a concert and there's a sign reading "no re-entry"). A space shuttle that returns to Earth's atmosphere re-enters it, and an injured basketball player might decide to re-enter the game again in the final quarter.
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In his postgame news conference, Hurts didn’t address the hit by Jackson but did express frustration about not being able to clear the concussion protocol and re-enter the game sooner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
A third group make technical modifications to "legitimize" the phone, allowing it to re-enter the market.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Now it is building out manufacturing capacity to re-enter the enrichment market by 2029.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
I am also aware the economy isn’t great and I’m worried I won’t be able to easily re-enter the workforce if I take a year off.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Request permission,” it stated, “for Mary Rose to re-enter Portsmouth Harbor after a rather long commission of 437 years.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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