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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

Example Sentences

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U.S.-based Pelage Pharmaceuticals has an experimental therapy that tries to restart the hair-growth cycle from scratch by reawakening stem cells.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

In a letter to the House of Commons on Tuesday, Pollard said he had "agreed to restart the acceptance of vehicles from General Dynamics", while acknowledging the system had "not been good enough" for soldiers.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

“Because once fields, infrastructure, and export routes take repeated hits, the system stops behaving like a restart candidate and starts behaving like a diminished asset base.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 26, 2026

But Pirro added that she would “not hesitate” to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant the action, adding that she expects to receive a comprehensive report in “short order” from the IG’s office.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Adding to the insult, the Tokyo lab’s director, Yukio Nishina, already had received permission from occupation officials to restart his cyclotron for biological and medical research.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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