Example Sentences

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Work group members advocated for a “systemwide reexamination of standardized testing, as many peer institutions have already done.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

This insight extends far beyond coronal rain, prompting a reexamination of how the Sun's outer layers evolve and how energy circulates through its atmosphere.

From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025

It also encouraged a reexamination of federal consent decrees, a legal mechanism that is commonly used to encourage notably violent police departments to reform.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025

A reexamination of the spears, for example, shows that their makers included multiple steps, in a specific order: They stripped bark, removed branches, sharpened and smoothed the spears, and hardened them in fire.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 31, 2024

The horrors of Nazi eugenics inspired a cautionary tale, prompting a global reexamination of the ambitions that had spurred the effort.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee