- a variation of reexamine.
re-examine
Britishverb
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to examine again
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law to examine (one's own witness) again upon matters arising out of his cross-examination
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That forced me to re-examine situations I had already lived through — cases where things didn’t go the way they were “supposed” to go, even when clients thought they had done everything right on paper.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
In a recent interview, he told OPB and ProPublica that he’s urged policymakers, in academic articles and in testimony, to re-examine whether the program has any value at all.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
It set up the Forensic Opportunities Programme in 2024 to re-examine closed murder or rape cases from before 2016 where the culprit has not been found.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
But overall, it’s an inventive conceit for a scavenger hunt that prompts Felix and Marigold to re-examine their surroundings, recording the sounds of summer as they go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
I think it would be in the well-considered interest of the Republic, since the fall of the tyrants we have overthrown, to re-examine the motives of Thomas Paine's imprisonment.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
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