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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reprocess .
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Examples
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SterilMed Inc., a firm that "reprocesses" single-use medical devices such as catheters, has been sold to a pair of private-equity firms, the company announced Thursday.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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SterilMed Inc., a firm that "reprocesses" single-use medical devices such as catheters, has been sold to a pair of private-equity firms, the company announced Thursday.
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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But the new thinking is that, during sleep, the brain reprocesses or transforms fragile new memories into more permanent forms, sets them in mental context and extracts their meaning.
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream—But Why? Matt Ridley 2011
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South Korea buys far more petrochemicals from elsewhere in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, then reprocesses and exports refined products mainly to China and other Asian nations.
U.S. Presses South Korea to Curtail Tehran Trade Due to Nuclear Claims Evan Ramstad 2011
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With unflinching honesty, the pint-sized poet and divinity scholar from Texas processes and reprocesses what unfolds around her in the old quarter of Damascus and inside a stark desert monastery, while dissecting the failings of her intimate relationships with her lovers and with God.
Crumbs of Wisdom from The Bread of Angels Jan McGirk 2010
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France built standardized reactor designs (cutting costs and easing training requirements), chemically reprocesses spent nuclear fuel (to cut the volume and extend the life of fuel stockpiles), invests vigorously in research, and has a steady stream of technicians trained in their nuclear navy that transition into their plants.
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We can easily reprocesses the vast majority of our waste as the French do.
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France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.
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Russia also reprocesses some of its spent fuel from Soviet-designed reactors in other countries.
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IFR produces only short-lived waste, has plenty of fast neutrons spare for transmutation of long-lived waste, and reprocesses spent fuel (which is over 90% unspent fuel, and currently completely wasted!) into fresh fuel on site, eliminating risky transport of spent fuel.
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