Example Sentences

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This causes sodium's physical transformation from shiny metal to transparent insulator, as free-flowing electrons absorb and retransmit light but trapped electrons simply allow the light to pass through.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2023

The trial judge, Peter Cahill, had allowed journalists and members of the public to view them on computers by appointment, but not to record or retransmit them.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2021

At CBS, where he was senior vice president from 1988 to 1993, Mr. Kriegel helped persuade Congress to require the cable TV industry to pay broadcasters for the right to retransmit over-the-air programming.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019

They are then redistributed to local wireless carriers that retransmit them to cell towers.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2018

Is there a day when you do not "distribute" or retransmit fragments of articles you have read, when you do not seek to share with friends some image or tune?

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James