reread
verb (used with object)
to read (something) again.
was rereading
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past progressiveof reread.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“And it seems to me, when I was rereading my journals, that they are also fictions of a sort. This is not my life. It is a story I have told about my life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
And Denis O’Hare’s performance specifically stayed with me so much so, that when I was rereading the play, several of his line readings came flooding back.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
I was rereading my book last weekend and I really had no idea that putting all of this together in one solid package would lead to the conclusion that there is, in fact, a plot.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2018
I was rereading the Potter Stewart hearings recently, from 1959, and they had exactly the same conversation.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2017
Richard was rereading Kainene’s note when the plane touched down in Kano.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
