re-examine
English
Verb
re-examine (third-person singular simple present re-examines, present participle re-examining, simple past and past participle re-examined)
- (transitive) To examine again.
- 2008, Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs, David Samuels December, The New Yorker, 15
- Making long cross-country drives, Coster-Mullen said, had given him plenty of time to reëxamine the three-dimensional diagram of the bomb that he keeps in his head, like a Buddhist monk contemplating the Karmic wheel.
- 2019 November 6, Dennis Fancett, “Guest Columnist”, in Rail, page 52:
- These questions are re-examined by senior management at key stages throughout the project (often known as gateways) at which a decision might be made be modify or even abort a project rather than waste any more money.
- 2008, Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs, David Samuels December, The New Yorker, 15
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Translations
to examine again
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