refire
Americanverb (used with object)
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Anytime you have to replate and refire, it complicates things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
But the one song Pippa needs to refire Jane’s career remains elusive, and now Jonesy, the Mark Ronson-meets-Dr.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
I’m delighted that he messes with narrative: By all means, mash fiction into sludge and refire it into something new.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
The concern here is with preventing the Soviets from having hidden caches of "refire" missiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red China, moreover, clearly feared that the Dalai Lama's escape would refire his people's will to resist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Earlier this year, the company attempted suborbital hops, where the spacecraft launched to an altitude of about six miles, belly flopped back to Earth horizontally, then righted itself and refired its engines before touching down.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
Each set was glazed white, hand-painted and refired, which meant that even within a duo there were always subtle differences: an eye staring into the distance, a mouth slightly upturned in a half-smile.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
The spacecraft then righted itself, refired its three engines and touched down softly in a cloud of dust and smoke.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2021
He is fired, promoted, rehired and refired, has found a new place to live and is moving out, is moving in and repainting, is in the other room dying and in the kitchen being born.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2010
And she refired him as the cab ran on, rekindled the cold stove and set the logs ablaze.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
While Johnson finished 28th in his first 500, at age 46, Kanaan revved up the crowd by qualifying sixth, finishing third and refiring his hopes of coming back once more in 2023.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
This week, its workers were back at the controls, transporting coal from storage heaps and refiring furnaces, as part of emergency efforts to keep the heat and electricity on this winter.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
In 1975, a commission of seven experts was empaneled to review the ballistics, including refiring Sirhan’s gun.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2018
Soldiers signaled the Electra crew to hurry out of the plane; but Buchanan and Yandell stalled, throwing switches and circuit breakers wildly, making sure the Cubans would have a rough time refiring the engines.
From Time Magazine Archive
The glaze coat was melted by refiring the piece at a lower temperature; and it was frequently necessary to repeat this process several times in order to get a perfectly even and brilliant result.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
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