reread
verb (used with object)
to read (something) again.
rereads
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present tense formof reread (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Here, Henry discusses her writing process, an author she rereads every year and the meaning behind the Taylor Swift needle-drop in “People We Meet on Vacation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
Even on rereads, which I try to do every year, I find my heart racing and my palms sweating within a hundred pages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
One reader noted that he bought the books back in the 1970s and rereads them all about once a decade.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
There is a favorite book of Kelly’s that he has said he rereads at key moments of his career.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2018
Max eats a second ham sandwich and rereads a comic book, and sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
