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restart

British  

verb

  1. to start again

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. the act or an instance of starting again

      the restart of the lap

    2. ( as modifier )

      a restart device

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Microsoft agreed to a 20-year power deal to support Constellation’s restart of the undamaged reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, the site of America’s worst nuclear accident.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Colapinto locked up at the restart after a safety-car period and slid into Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly, who then hit McLaren driver Norris, in an incident which resulted in all three retiring from the race.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

World champion Lando Norris has called for Alpine's Franco Colapinto to be banned for causing an accident at a restart at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

This morning, traders parsed reports that Iran is making a new proposal to reopen the strait and potentially restart talks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Those that survived this “natural selection” would restart the grim cycle again—Sisyphus moving from one famine to the next.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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